bigwig
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
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 • Jan. 4, 2026
In the late 2000s, the NFL’s media bigwigs realized that football fans loved their fantasy teams but disliked both commercial breaks and doing too much thinking on Sunday afternoons.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
Don't forget Reeves has several different audiences – not just the public and her party, but the financial bigwigs too.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025
Like the governor, whom he had come down to pass judgment upon, he was reckoned a progressive; and though he was already a bigwig, he was not like the majority of bigwigs.
From Fathers and Children by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
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