clout
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The endorsement also gives Raman newfound clout in an area where her campaign has struggled: securing support from her fellow elected officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
They were not just the sides who often dominated the top positions in the table, but also had the biggest fanbase, most financial clout and were usually the league's most successful sides.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Paramount will also face restrictions on how it wields clout during negotiations for distribution of its basic cable TV channels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Xi's diplomatic clout has also been on full display recently, having met this month with several leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, traveling to Bishkek, Cairo and New Delhi.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Shanti's on a full scholarship, and she has a lot of clout around here.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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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
She preferred to let her subjects discover for themselves that the terrible Spaniard before whom the world trembled was but a colossus stuffed with clouts.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude
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