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Recent Examples of top dog
Just wait until the top dogs get going again, which is all but inevitable.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Gets a small walk-on role and understudies the lead, and then the top dog loses his voice.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The leaders of both the United States and China need, for domestic political reasons, to appear to be the top dog.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
Big names in finance are predicting a recession — and that’s not making the top dogs in business happy.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Gets a small walk-on role and understudies the lead, and then the top dog loses his voice.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
The leaders of both the United States and China need, for domestic political reasons, to appear to be the top dog.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
Big names in finance are predicting a recession — and that’s not making the top dogs in business happy.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top dog
Noun
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In addition to claiming the second-most No. 1s of all time, Linkin Park has also scored multiple long-running rulers.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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The death in 2022 of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules sparked Iran's biggest domestic unrest since the 1979 revolution that brought its clerical rulers to power.—
Miranda Murray,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
Noun
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The company acquired 102 federal mining claims in the Lisbon Valley of Utah in November 2021 and expanded its holdings to 743 placer claims over 14,320 acres by July 2023.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
25 Mar. 2025
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Hancock was an All-Region football player and two-time Top 3 state placer in wrestling, according to the outlet.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This team has cast off its familiar underdog mantle and embraced being the overdog.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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It’s always funny when a show about underdogs is … an overdog.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2021
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“Top dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20dog. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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