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as in heavyweights
one of high position or importance within a group
the office was all abuzz because some honchos from corporate headquarters were coming for a visit
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as in leaders
the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do
he's definitely the head honcho in that company
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for honchos
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Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.—
Sumeet Vaidya,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026 -
Now, those two heavyweights are set to duke it out on Saturday night with a trip to the national championship game on the line.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Gables leaders have raised concerns during city meetings about the potential impact.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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City leaders in Lake Dallas got more than an earful from residents who believe they were failed during a crisis in late March when a house explosion critically injured Jessica Bailey Lopez.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Purdue is more perimeter-oriented, and what the Boilers get from their bigs is largely a bonus.—
Christian Babcock,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2026
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So our bigs were going to have to hit bodies, but our guards were going to have to come clean it up.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Bernadine was now viewed with such suspicion that Chalker’s bosses suspected a setup.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Even romantic relationships can’t fill the gap Rinne sees forming between employees and their bosses.—
Jacqueline Munis,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Specifically, Alioto sought to reimagine the magazine as a many-pronged vehicle for promising tastes—like those of regular contributors and critical heavies, Grace Byron and Greta Rainbow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Absinthe-eyed, she projectile-vomits blunt observations and also oysters onto the heavies, overimbibing her way into her own grave once she’s inevitably discarded with a shot and shove down a stairwell (a barely-there John Magaro plays one of the gangsters).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2026
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For years after that, TCU alums who had served as Ranch Week foremen or queen would proudly include it on resumes, in professional biographies or when running for office.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Aug. 2025
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Unfortunately, too many other bigwigs of broadcasting fail to show similar even-handedness.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Party bigwigs were coming to shake his hand.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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These measures are politically popular and ultra-wealthy Big Tech chiefs are easy villains.—
Catherine Thorbecke,
Twin Cities,
28 Mar. 2026
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The most conspicuous act of local resistance — albeit a mild one — was the plea from a group of sheriffs and police chiefs to ease up on deporting undocumented law-abiding immigrants and to provide a path to normalization for the vast majority who have broken no law except by being here.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Honchos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honchos. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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