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That moment when the underdogs became the NFL’s top dogs. — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, "Nick Foles, Philadelphia Eagles are no longer underdogs after Super Bowl LII win," 4 Feb. 2018 The sporting, working and terrier groups will be judged Tuesday before the top dog among the more than 2,800 entries in 203 breeds and varieties is chosen. — Ben Walker, The Seattle Times, "Dachshunds get chance to break out of Westminster doghouse," 12 Feb. 2019 The opportunity is there for Mount Si to displace perennial KingCo 4A powers Woodinville (defending league champ and state runner-up), Bothell and Skyline as top dog. — Matt Massey, The Seattle Times, "‘It’s like telepathy’: Receiver Jonny Barrett’s connection with QB Cale Millen has Mount Si thinking big," 27 Aug. 2018 The Orion 9000 is the company’s top dog that—get this—comes with wheels and a handle. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "Acer, Alienware, and HP have all announced desktops with GeForce RTX," 20 Aug. 2018 The top dog is clear, though: 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX with 32 cores, 64 threads, and a base clock of 3GHz and boost clock of 4.2GHz, for $1,799. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "AMD's 32-core Threadripper dares Intel to match it on cores and price," 6 Aug. 2018 However, AMD’s new flagship CPU is actually a pretty spectacular bargain compared to Intel’s top dog, the Core i-7980XE, which launched last year with 18 cores and a price of $2,000. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "AMD's 32-core Threadripper dares Intel to match it on cores and price," 6 Aug. 2018 With its handsome budget, Sky can afford the best support riders around, none bigger than Thomas, who would be the top dog almost anywhere else. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Who Will Win the Tour de France? On One Team, It’s Awkward," 23 July 2018 Former shuttle commander and current director of flight operations Mark Kelly is an executive, as is Alan Stern, former top science official at NASA and current top dog on the New Horizons mission to Pluto. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "A Former Astronaut Will Be Flying Balloons to the Edge of Space," 23 Feb. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'top dog.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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