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View definitions for leading role

leading role

noun as in leading lady

noun as in leading man

noun as in star

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A broad mandate and lack of meaningful safeguards at the FPS will position the agency to take a leading role.

From Slate

“Sometimes it’s in a leading role; sometimes it’s in supporting. What I enjoy doing is trying to disappear and not do the same thing over and over again.”

And a Black actor, Cynthia Erivo, plays a leading role formerly popularized by a white performer in the stage production.

What is clear: Ohtani will have a leading role to play in multiple ways for the 2025 Dodgers, who are hoping he can replicate some of his dominant offensive form from the past year while also being in position to impact what was a shorthanded pitching staff in 2024.

In December 1997, the UK delegation led by the deputy PM played a leading role in agreeing the landmark Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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