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Recent Examples of lion As part of efforts to diversify its supply chains, TSMC has been investing billions in overseas facilities, though the lion’s share of its manufacturing remains in Taiwan. Dylan Butts, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025 Here is the story, untold until now, of one of the most unusual incidents of a 40-year political career and which proves the lion in winter is still a lion. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2025 The state and the county absorb the lion’s share of any tax reduction. Bruce D Coons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025 The lion’s share of analysts polled by LSEG have buy ratings. Alex Harring, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lion
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Noun
  • Around the same time, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate magnate who has been heavily involved in the negotiations with Russia, mused about the possibilities for U.S.-Russian collaboration in an interview with the commentator Tucker Carlson.
    Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Zuckerberg, who was recently revealed as the buyer of a $23 million mansion with a 10-minute commute to the White House, is but the latest of the Silicon Valley magnates flocking to the area’s high-end homes, making ripples in the luxury real estate market as well as in politics.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sue Ellen, who was married to philandering oil tycoon J.R.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • About 60 years earlier, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford had founded the university on his stock farm in Palo Alto, a sparsely populated town in a region where apricot and peach trees outnumbered houses.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Charlotte on the other hand will likely be the future daughter or sister of a future king.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The Prince of Wales’ attendance in place of the King is a modern tradition, and a statement to further establish William’s role as future king.
    Callum Sutherland, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This dream comes closer to becoming real when Elvira, and her beautiful new stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Naess) are invited to a society ball that the prince is hosting.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The prince met with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian to discuss regional cooperation.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Inside the transformation of the Frick Collection One of New York City's most exquisite museums, the Frick Collection, located in the former home of a Gilded Age steel baron, has reopened following a four-year, more than $200 million renovation.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Across the country, millions of viewers eagerly await the last episode of the iconic show with Walter and Jesse becoming drug barons.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The agent and the drug lords Camarena, who was born in Mexico but raised in Calexico, was 37 years old on Feb. 7, 1985, when five gunmen abducted him off the street in Guadalajara near the U.S. Consulate.
    Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In the series, following the Norman invasion of England, Rob (Patten) – a Saxon forester’s son – and Marian, the daughter of a Norman lord – fall in love and work together to fight for justice and freedom.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Steel previously represented rap star Young Thug during his RICO trial.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Pirates star Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double to put the team up 4-3 in the bottom of the inning when players from his team frantically tried to alert umpires and security the fan was on the warning track.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump's border czar Tom Homan on April 28 said the administration deported 139,000 people in the first 100 days – putting the administration on track to remove roughly half a million people this year.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Monday.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Lion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lion. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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