as in best
individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class
the ceremony featured an A-list of Hollywood stars
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Recent Examples of A-list
Few architects have a résumé that spans both A-list ownership and starring roles on screen, but Lautner’s legacy certainly isn’t confined to real life.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 July 2025
The A-list actor descended the steps, and the audience erupted.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The pair went on a double date with A-list couple Bradley Cooper and model Gigi Hadid.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
But the final scene of Season 3 sets the stage for something bigger within the franchise — the possibility of an American version featuring a female recruiter played by an A-list star.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 July 2025
The A-list actor descended the steps, and the audience erupted.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The pair went on a double date with A-list couple Bradley Cooper and model Gigi Hadid.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
But the final scene of Season 3 sets the stage for something bigger within the franchise — the possibility of an American version featuring a female recruiter played by an A-list star.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for A-list
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Judge holds career bests of 10.60 in the 100 and 21.85 in the 200.—
Matt Roy,
Boston Herald,
11 July 2025
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In 2017, thousands of men ran 400-meter times that were faster than the personal bests of Olympic gold medalists Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.—
Mike Dunleavy,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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But Collins, now the head of special collections and archives at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, noticed that the text was written in Old French, the language used by aristocracy and England’s royal court after the Norman Conquest in 1066.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
9 May 2025
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A little biographical information: He was born in 1896 into the decaying Bourbon aristocracy.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
7 Apr. 2025
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The first came in the top of the fourth when Buehler walked Josh Lowe and served up a two-run home run to Ha-Seong Kim, his first of the season to put the Rays ahead 2-1.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
11 July 2025
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However, the one that continues to be at the top of this list are policies around flexibility.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Gray is from a lineage of New Zealand sporting royalty.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
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At the same time, traditional fossil fuels, a top source of dangerous climate change, won new benefits in the legislation, including new access to drill in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, cheaper royalties to mine coal on federal land and new tax breaks for oil and gas drilling.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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The concern, though, is that while Tatum is in the prime of his career at age 27 – and, as such, should be uniquely equipped to overcome his Achilles injury – Lillard is eight years older.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025
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Subprime and near-prime lenders are the first to feel that impact.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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If the high court elects to take up the case, the justices would be tasked with asking if such bans on adults ages 18 through 20 from purchasing firearms are legal.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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Members of Iranian paramilitary women forces (Basij) wear masks of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US elect Donald Trump with a red cross of it, during an anti-Israeli rally to show their solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people, in Tehran, January 10, 2025.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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“A-list.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/A-list. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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