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He is one of the leading lights of the labor movement.
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Industrial Light and Magic has defied gravity and other forces to remain a leading light of the visual effects sector for half a century.
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
The number nine was one of the leading lights from the opening weekend of the Premier League, scoring twice as Tottenham Hotspur defeated promoted side Burnley on Saturday.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Graydon had manifested this night out of raw ambition and a hustler’s nerve, the same combination that had driven another outsider, Condé Montrose Nast, to gather the leading lights of Jazz Age entertainment and society in his Park Avenue penthouse decades earlier.
—Michael Grynbaum, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
Already many of the leading lights of the MAGA movement, both in and out of government, have broken openly with the president.
—Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
The number nine was one of the leading lights from the opening weekend of the Premier League, scoring twice as Tottenham Hotspur defeated promoted side Burnley on Saturday.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Graydon had manifested this night out of raw ambition and a hustler’s nerve, the same combination that had driven another outsider, Condé Montrose Nast, to gather the leading lights of Jazz Age entertainment and society in his Park Avenue penthouse decades earlier.
—Michael Grynbaum, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2025
Already many of the leading lights of the MAGA movement, both in and out of government, have broken openly with the president.
—Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
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“Leading light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leading%20light. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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