as in big(s)
the highest level of a field of endeavor
Broadway is the big leagues, and for big bucks theatergoers expect professionalism
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Recent Examples of big leagues
That 2022 validation — Nvidia invested about $900 million into the company, now worth more than $2 billion — launched CoreWeave into the AI big leagues with access to the chipmaker’s most advanced products to build the powerful data centers used to serve and train many of OpenAI’s models.
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025
With prices so high, media companies are narrowing their packages, leaving some big leagues like the NBA spread across more networks and streamers.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025
With prices so high, media companies are narrowing their packages, leaving some big leagues like the NBA spread across more networks and streamers.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for big leagues
major league
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Devers and the Mets’ Pete Alonso are the only major league players who have posted four 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons since 2019.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The following season, Lezcano appeared in just seven major league games.—
Jon Paul Hoornstra,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Big leagues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big%20leagues. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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