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Recent Examples of bigwig Kevin's wife Bella (Lara Pulver) is meeting her estranged dad, an apparent government bigwig with powerful friends. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025 Programmatic ads from a number of prominent companies, including tech stalwarts like Asana and Oracle, ecommerce bigwig Net-A-Porter, makeup giant Sephora, and resort chain Kalahari Resorts, appeared while WIRED was monitoring these websites. Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025 The proposition that reporters unintentionally missed the full story of Biden’s decline is much more credible, and has been advanced not only by Thompson and Tapper but by numerous journalistic bigwigs, both now and in the immediate aftermath of the debate. Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 May 2025 Upset about being undercut, the Texas bigwig resolves to put Georgie out of business. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bigwig
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigwig
Noun
  • Perimeter defense was a clear struggle for L.A., forcing late challenges by bigs leading to 25 free throws.
    Micheel Alharazy, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2025
  • The top remaining free agent bigs include Al Horford, Deandre Ayton, and Moe Wagner.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • As noted, newspapers and magazines have been conceived as a package—a mix of the light and the heavy.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Others are the heaviest of the heavy: a college student rendered brain-dead by a fentanyl overdose, a little girl who fatally drowns while saving her sister who fell into their swimming pool.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Coffee magnate Prayudh Mahagitsiri’s wealth took a hit as his PM Group’s long-standing joint venture with Nestle ended.
    Phisanu Phromchanya, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The island's first inhabitants were the Gabrielino Indigenous Peoples, and the island has changed ownership since the 1800s until purchased by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • At the height of the Greek junta, Irma is murdered by her husband, a tycoon, on their private island.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
  • The debut comes after the tycoon—son of famed Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-shing—tried to take the company public in New York in 2021, which was abandoned after regulatory scrutiny.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025

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“Bigwig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigwig. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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