leading figure
Example Sentences
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At least one Japanese executive, with a Japanese drugmaker and a leading figure in Japan’s business community in Beijing, was sentenced for espionage.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
In his ten years of work, he has become a leading figure in Senegal's alternative music scene, demonstrating that not all of the country's hits have to be in its homegrown Mbalax style.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Her husband, Ziaur Rahman, a leading figure in the country's struggle for independence, was president in 1977.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
Architect Alan Pullman and his family recently bought and renovated a 1940 Long Beach house by Raphael Soriano, who had worked for Richard Neutra and was a leading figure in Southern California midcentury modernism.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
Within months, he had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a leading figure of the movement for democracy in Russia.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
