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Recent Examples of honcho As for Michaels, he got involved at the behest of Mick Jagger, who asked the SNL honcho to return to his hometown of Toronto to testify on the guitarist’s behalf (Jagger arranged a private plane for Michaels, too). Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025 Some fans took Drake’s fashion choices as symbolic, with the OVO honcho rocking a hoodie riddled with holes across it. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2025 Some thought the Californian, who resides in Phoenix, likes the Giants, but it's been three weeks since new Giants honcho Buster Posey met with Burnes' agent, Scott Boras. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024 Caroline Stern, Canoe Film’s honcho and long-time collaborator to Ēkis, said the series perfectly fits her company’s profile. Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for honcho
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honcho
Noun
  • In a Reddit post, the woman's employee exposed her boss's shortcomings by simply following instructions.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • Gavi has no doubts about Luis Enrique’s standing in the game, and is also eternally grateful to his former national team boss.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Gabriel Byrne’s new heavy, the Chancellor, hisses to Castañeda’s doomed daddy as Eve watches in horror.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • At the same time, more of Richie's heavies arrive at the safe house.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile in every campaign there usually tends to be one character who emerges as the leader of the party.
    James Grebey, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
  • Advertisement Now, with Israel and Iran trading strikes, world leaders are looking to the Middle East and urging restraint.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The versatile Holmgren -- who averaged 8 boards per game in the regular season and is averaging 8.6 rpg in the playoffs -- should play heavy minutes against a Pacers team whose bigs spread the floor.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
  • The backcourt might not be as good, but if Condon and Haugh can make the leap, the Gators could adjust to playing more through their bigs.
    The Athletic College Basketball, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Joel, meanwhile, has become Jackson’s construction foreman, which puts him at odds with his sister-in-law, Maria (Rutina Wesley).
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The core idea of this story is that the justice system defaults repeatedly to favoring the voices of authority: the police (who didn’t investigate thoroughly), the foreman (who took the word of the police), and so on.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.
    Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Media magnate Ted Turner owns more than a dozen ranches across half a dozen states; retired golfer Greg Norman has an almost 12,000-acre game ranch in Colorado‘s White River Valley; and Kanye West has two Montana ranches totaling more than 10,000 acres.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz admitted to his team at the end of April that his own future was uncertain.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 June 2025
  • Gary Oldman plays the acerbic Jackson Lamb, the odoriferous chief of Slough House where MI5 agents who just can’t cut it – or who are being punished for one reason or another – are sent.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • 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

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