catbird seat

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Recent Examples of catbird seat Mom, who’d just flown from Washington state to the Big Apple, fist-pumped her way to a catbird seat on Cloud 9. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025 With memory giants like Samsung and SK Hynix cranking up production to keep pace with Nvidia’s Blackwell ramp, Lam is sitting in the catbird seat. John Buckingham, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 The catbird seats were occupied instead by the titans of attention. Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025 Seems to me that the Giants are in the catbird seat. Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 24 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for catbird seat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catbird seat
Noun
  • Boomsma said any traits the ants have evolved are adaptations driven by natural selection, and creating fitter hybrid workers provided a competitive advantage, allowing Iberian harvester ants to extend their range vastly.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Wave now hold a 6-2-1 advantage in the all-time regular season series.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Four years later, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducteees have returned to center stage to share music from their first new album in over 40 years.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Then Marquez found himself at center stage surrounded by the Kansas City Symphony.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The attack was widely condemned in the Middle East and beyond as an act that could escalate tensions in a region already on edge.
    Jarrett Renshaw, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, edge computing will gain, too.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The new 120-seat restaurant places a spotlight on the French Italian Riviera and its cuisine—all while using those ingredients found a littler closer to Swikard’s home.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From up in the rafters, a single spotlight coldly blazed.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those deep ties might give EssilorLuxottica or L’Oréal an upper hand compared to LVMH.
    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Northern Sea Route is generally viewed as more developed and regulated, with Moscow investing heavily in infrastructure as part of a broader campaign to gain an upper hand in the Arctic.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Krispy Kreme's original melt-in-your-mouth glazed donut will always get top billing on the menu.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel The Five-Star hotel is the likeliest luxury property to receive top billing next season.
    Spencer Whaley, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Microsoft’s whip hand, more than anything, else, comes down to cold hard cash.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The failure of the ‘red wave’ to materialize means that an old-fashioned socialist will have the whip hand over health care for the next two years.
    Joel Zinberg, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • After a bit of talking back and forth, the couple had their official first date in New York and, since then, have been unable to stay away from the public and media limelight.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images India’s tax reform plans portend a consumption boom At a time when U.S. trade tariffs on India have been making headlines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tax relief plans have stolen some of the media limelight.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Catbird seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catbird%20seat. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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