A-LISTS Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

A-lists

noun

plural of A-list

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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Noun

Scott William Winters plays Clark, a Harvard student who Will intellectually bests.

— Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
His hitting metrics are all career bests, and he’s headed for his fourth consecutive season of 20-plus homers.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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Noun

Under the Assad regime, the parliament functioned as a ceremonial fig leaf that served political elites and passed laws that stripped ordinary Syrians of their basic rights.

— Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2026
Haley Stevens says criticism comes from coastal elites In the viral TMZ video posted July 22, Stevens was stopped by Jacob Wasserman, a member of the gossip brigade's new team in Washington.

— Jay Stahl, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of elites

Noun

While governments receive royalties, taxes, and returns on equity stakes, much of the extraordinary profit generated during price spikes flows to private operators and their shareholders.

— Michael Adu Okyere, Time, 28 July 2026
This failed to take into account royalties, residuals, image and intellectual property rights, and other assets, the Boseman brothers’ filing said.

— Lindsay Good, NBC news, 23 July 2026

Definition of royalties

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What other research is being done Researchers increasingly treat trust as a multilevel phenomenon – spanning individuals, relationships, networks of people and societies – rather than a single attitude.

— Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
In human societies, the policing of speech, which is meant to reform the thoughts behind it, risks merely leaving thoughts unspoken.

— Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of societies

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With energy prices moving higher in July so far, and recent strong statements on fighting inflation, markets see broadly a 1 in 3 chance that the FOMC elects to increase rates in July.

— Simon Moore, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Veleria Levy, representative-elect for northeast Charlotte’s state House District 99, testified against Duke’s original proposal this spring.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 13 July 2026

Definition of elect

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But these technical qualities only throw into relief the plastic, uncanny-valley feel of the characters whizzing about this latter-day Skull Island.

— Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Those qualities don’t usually make it into rom-coms like this one, about the relationship between Monica Barbaro’s commercial-jingle singer Allie and Callum Turner’s pizza-shop owner Owen.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026

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