as in magnates
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field
the book festival brought together two lions of contemporary poetry for a joint reading
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Recent Examples of lions
Some time later, Umbro even released a special New Order version of it, with a World In Motion logo replacing the three lions national crest.
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Nick Miller,
New York Times,
28 June 2026
The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, enormous hippo populations, chimpanzee tracking, volcanic crater lakes, wetlands and savannah ecosystems.
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Sarah Kingdom,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, and bears might have to become supper.
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David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
The zoo's lions Scarlett and Hondo welcomed the lion cub a little more than two months ago on Easter Sunday, April 5.
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Finch Walker,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Some cities have vicious parking enforcement people who sit and wait like lions in the grass.
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Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
Over several days in the country, the trip — Stefano Ricci’s ninth — spanned the Tarangire region guarded by the Maasai, and the Serengeti national park with its rich wildlife, including leopards and families of lions and lionesses and their cubs appearing in campaign imagery.
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Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
28 June 2026
The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, enormous hippo populations, chimpanzee tracking, volcanic crater lakes, wetlands and savannah ecosystems.
—
Sarah Kingdom,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
Alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, and bears might have to become supper.
—
David Merritt Johns,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
The zoo's lions Scarlett and Hondo welcomed the lion cub a little more than two months ago on Easter Sunday, April 5.
—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
—
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Some cities have vicious parking enforcement people who sit and wait like lions in the grass.
—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
Over several days in the country, the trip — Stefano Ricci’s ninth — spanned the Tarangire region guarded by the Maasai, and the Serengeti national park with its rich wildlife, including leopards and families of lions and lionesses and their cubs appearing in campaign imagery.
—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lions
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The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
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Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
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Set in the eponymous Texas metropolis, Dallas followed the Ewings, a powerful family of oil tycoons and ranch owners whose feuds and foibles made for wildly entertaining primetime viewing.
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Three of Paxton’s billionaire backers were Texas-native tycoons with a history of funding right-wing candidates in the state, one of whom died after his donation.
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The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
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Little is yet known about the jewelry and its significance, but Gordon believes that the jewelry was once worn by the kings and queens of an ancient Khmer Empire that spanned Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, and existed for hundreds of years.
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American vacationers, Emirati princes, French fashion designers, British socialites and new-money Chinese.
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Earlier this year, Quinn pounced on the opportunity to cast Heated Rivalry’s Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams as star-crossed fae princes from feuding kingdoms who (spoiler) have been knocking boots in secret.
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“Lions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lions. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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