Thesaurus results for HIGHER-UPS

higher-ups

noun

plural of higher-up

as in executives

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While Deloitte predicts a surge in autonomous AI deployment, only 29% of executives are confident in assessing their return on investment, according to IBM.

— Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
With the trade deadline one week away, multiple major-league executives estimate the chances of Goodman getting traded at about 30 percent.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of executives

Noun

Superintendents, charter school leaders, private school administrators, college presidents, business executives, and workforce leaders must be willing to see one another differently.

— Gennaro Piraino, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
The change has coincided with more distrust of the page’s administrators who are tasked with maintaining a productive and civil dialogue on the site.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of administrators

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So Parker telephoned the base posing as the doctor of Adams’ supposedly ailing mother and talked the young soldier’s superiors into issuing an emergency furlough.

— Dan Kelly July 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
Trying to burn down the entire rest of the ecosystem might profit the SEC or Big Ten and their television superiors in the short run, maybe even the long run.

— Jason Kirk, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of superiors

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According to L3Harris, the monitoring solution allows submarine commanders to optimize mission planning by delivering accurate information on battery status throughout deployment.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 July 2026
Some Iran experts said the MOU was simply acknowledging the reality of an Iranian entrenchment so deep that there are believed to be hundreds of Revolutionary Guard commanders in Lebanon.

— Ron Kampeas, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026

Definition of commanders

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This news shouldn’t stop employers from collecting this data.

— Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Businesses that will be there include major Dallas-Fort Worth area employers such as Bell Textron, Lockheed Martin, John Peter Smith Health Network, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, AT&T and Kroger.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026

Definition of employers

Noun

Also let go were correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega — and soon after, Scott Pelley, after a tense confrontation with his bosses over the changes.

— Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 29 July 2026
In fact, 21 of the NHL’s 32 current coaches served as AHL bench bosses before making the jump.

— Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 27 July 2026

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