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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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Noun
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Elsewhere in the shopping arcade, culinary heavyweights like Wolfgang Puck, Gordon Ramsay, and Daniel Boulud lend their names to additional restaurants.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Feb. 2026 -
Bores, once an engineer at Palantir (the AI company involved in helping ICE), has earned the ire of his former bosses, and other tech bro heavyweights, by forcefully campaigning on regulation.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Boston community leaders proposed a new plan to tackle the open-air drug market at and around Mass and Cass that focuses on getting addicts off the streets, out of jail and into recovery in order to avoid last summer’s crowding and chaos.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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Harm reduction can encompass a range of practices, including handing out free needles to slow the spread of disease, and many local leaders credit some of those efforts with recent drops in fatal overdoses.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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After rotating regularly between four bigs for much of the year, Gottlieb entrusted redshirt freshman Laura Williams with the lion’s share of opportunities at the five Thursday.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Guerschon Yabusele and Nick Richards are assigned the lofty task of being viable big-minute bigs, and the backcourt features more agendas and guards to play than seems feasible.—
Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Deadly intra-cartel battles have previously followed the killings or arrests of other crime bosses in Mexico.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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Continue reading … 'TOTAL CHAOS' — Anderson Cooper's '60 Minutes' exit reportedly leaves CBS News bosses blindsided.—
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FOXNews.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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The Paramount executive also became president of the American Motion Picture Association (precursor to the MPA) in 1925, beating out the likes of Marcus Loew, Lasky, William Fox, Hays, Sam Rothafel, Sam Katz, Carl Laemmle, Joseph Schenck, and other Hollywood heavies.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Jan. 2026
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Kier’s American career centered around playing heavies.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
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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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Everyone seemed a little confused about it and the Legion bigwigs didn’t help much.—
Bill Swank,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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The race for artificial intelligence supremacy has pitted Silicon Valley bigwigs against Washington policymakers and Chinese competitors.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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The photoshoot produced an awkward moment when Altman and Amodei, chiefs of rival AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, stood side by side on stage but did not hold hands although the other executives did.—
Aditya Soni,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
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In total, 15 fire engines, eight tenders, and seven chiefs and other support was present from mutual aid departments, according to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Honchos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honchos. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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