bigwig
Example Sentences
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“Playing God” is what law-firm and investment-bank bigwigs used to call their task jokingly, when voting each year on a new class of partners.
When Hollywood bigwigs face trouble, Alan Jackson is often their first call.
A crowd of CEOs, diplomats, media bigwigs and celebrities from all over the world poured through the entryways like a stream overflowing its banks.
These fat-pocketed bigwigs must roam the Hollywood Hills peering up at the sky covered in storm clouds, hoping that they’ll catch the fateful electric spark in their glass vials.
From Salon
He and other customers bolted to confront the Border Patrol bigwig.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
