rainmaking

Example Sentences

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The same isn’t true at the top end, where star trial lawyers, rainmaking corporate dealmakers, and veterans of Supreme Court oral arguments are driving more aggressively on pay than ever and meeting little resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

They know that there is the possibility that other law firms will try to steal their clients, steal their rainmaking partners while that litigation is going on.

From Slate • May 27, 2025

In Ida’s case, he said, conditions were ripe “for rainmaking and it all came to fruition along the I-95 corridor.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Trying to control the weather is nothing new: People once performed rainmaking dances and offered sacrifices in the hopes that the gods would end droughts.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2020

Here they would go before a panel of judges who could ask them questions about their rainmaking proposals.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti