as in nobodies
a person of no importance or influence
among astronomers she's considered a lightweight
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Recent Examples of lightweights
Monte Vista boasts a pair of solid lightweights in Alexa Malinis (100) and Katara Ortiz (105).
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Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Hughes is one of the world's top lightweights in MMA, the sport where McGregor built his following and name.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Hughes is one of the world's top lightweights in MMA, the sport where McGregor built his following and name.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightweights
Noun
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Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Blind Owl is extremely dense, brimming with metaphors and ciphers and symbols.—
Amir Ahmadi Arian,
The Dial,
15 Jan. 2026
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Like Dostoyevsky, Capote doesn’t portray his killers as demonic ciphers, instead capturing their messy complexity.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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The ditch that’s up to 19 feet deep dwarfs the heavy machinery inside of it.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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Plus Brock and Sindri, the gear upgrade dwarves.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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John McCutcheon, a biology professor at Arizona State University, studies the symbiotic relationships between insects and the invisible bacteria that live inside their cells.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Wipe it down with a cloth dipped in rubbing alcohol to kill any insects and to remove sap.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Lightweights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightweights. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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