clout
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Huang has also used his clout with other industry CEOs to help shape policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The upheaval underscores how L.A. franchises have become billion-dollar assets in a high-stakes arms race, in which owners chase media money, luxury arenas and global clout as fiercely as championships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
For analysts and investors interested in Washington bolstering artificial intelligence, minerals and other industries key to America’s global clout, the holdings represent a portfolio that must be managed like any other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Only Lula has the political clout and credibility to carry out reforms," Edinho Silva, president of Lula's Workers' Party, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Using their clout with the downtown police department, they posted three hundred mounted police in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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His clouts were described by The Times as “gigantic.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
If you were one of the 164,000 convicts transported to the Australian colonies, chances are you forked clys for screeves and clouts or worked the hoist to nail lobs and serve coves.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
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
Leggings, clouts, sporrans, and moccasins were soaked; the slippery, wet buckskins glistened like the hides of serpents; fringes, beaded belts, and sheaths shone as tinted frost sparkles at sunrise.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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