kingpin
Example Sentences
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The U.S. government designated El Aissami a narcotics kingpin in 2017 in connection with activities in his previous positions as interior minister and governor.
From Seattle Times
Other kingpins have years when all that newness doesn’t work, when it somehow spills all over the chemistry lab.
From Washington Post
To name a few, he played a drug kingpin in FX’s “Sons of Anarchy,” a judge in the Amazon series “Goliath” and an angel in the NBC series “Constantine.”
From New York Times
“We came a long way to get here, and there’s been a lot of hard work that people don’t see,” NFL receiving kingpin Cooper Kupp said.
From Seattle Times
The court heard that Mr Beqiri was a kingpin in an international drugs gang who was targeted as part of a feud with a rival organised crime group.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
