clout
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Nandy opted not to issue an “intervention notice” after striking an agreement with Paramount that provides “assurances and legally-binding commitments” that the company would not abuse its market clout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
To what extent will the No 10 operation be beefed up, and how much clout will No 10 North, Burnham's office in Manchester, have?
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Historically, Saudi Arabia has played a significant role in doing that as OPEC’s biggest swing producer—giving it global diplomatic clout, including with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
But the shift underscores a dramatic loss of clout by Comcast and other traditional media enterprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
During the eighteen years of his reign, the city acquired diplomatic stature and commercial clout; its population grew to perhaps ten thousand and it established trade contacts throughout Mesoamerica.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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His clouts were described by The Times as “gigantic.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
Makes some space and clouts Hazlewood over long-on.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2016
The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire’s mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2015
The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire's mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.
From US News ● Oct. 9, 2015
The broad linen serves to adorn themselves and their dead men’s sepulchers within, they also make clouts thereof.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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