highfliers

variants or highflyers
plural of highflier

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of highfliers The movie starts on high, with rapturous views of the Manhattan skyline and David King (Denzel Washington), one of the city’s highfliers, pacing on the balcony of his penthouse on the Brooklyn waterfront. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highfliers
Noun
  • The festival's sponsors range from entertainment powerhouses to social media platforms and beverage brands.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Today, both the country’s new tech firms, like DeepSeek, and existing powerhouses, like Huawei, are increasingly keeping pace with their American counterparts.
    Michael C. Horowitz, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Harrelson and Snipes starred alongside Perez in White Men Can't Jump as two street basketball hustlers who entered into a business partnership together, only for chaos to ensue.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some people are self-starters, while others require very clear guidelines and goals.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This means they enjoy being surrounded by go-getters (those who can assert themselves and be unapologetic about doing so).
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Highfliers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highfliers. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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