major leaguer

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Noun
  • Harry heads back to the yard, where a group of Kevin's Czechoslovakian hired heavies are preparing for war.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • On Twin Peaks, Strong plays Jones, the right-hand woman for one of the series’ heavies.
    Drew Mackie, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Pistons have used a combination of wings (Tobias Harris, Malik Beasley, Tim Hardaway Jr.) and bigs (Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart, who sat Game 2 due to injury) to show Towns different looks on the defensive end.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • After officials told Green to lay off the physicality – and the veteran big vociferously argued – the two went right back to jostling.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wyatt embodies the worst excesses of the final years of the big-label era, when companies were scouting, promoting, and quickly disposing of bands in a furious cycle to find the next big boy or girl group.
    James Factora, Them, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Around the time the series was announced, Simon Cowell — who played a role in forming One Direction on The X Factor, as did Scherzinger — unveiled plans to film a documentary series searching for the next big boy band.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nintendo's top talent has presumably worked on Switch 2 software for years, so now is the time for big guns like Donkey Kong, Mario, and Zelda.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The Blueshirts’ big guns of Panarin and Fox worked to engineer Zibanejad’s one-timer from the left circle, 2:13 after Carlsson’s goal.
    Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Archaeologists have now found the first direct osteological evidence: the skeleton of a Roman gladiator who encountered a wild animal in the arena, most likely a lion, based on bite marks evident on the pelvic bone, according to a paper published in the journal PLoS ONE.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
  • It’s got about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee and a nice coconut flavor thanks to a bit of powdered coconut milk, and, importantly for a mushroom coffee, not too much fungi flavor despite the inclusion of lion’s mane, reishi, and cordyceps.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Off-road vehicles need to be boxy, tall and large with big wheels and specialized tires -- these are terrible for range.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • One of the teachers at Abbott, Jacob (played by Chris Perfetti), paid homage to Sajak with his costume, which even included a big wheel.
    Kayla Caldwell, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Some of the heavy hitters in the 2024 playoffs included Texas ($22.2 million) and champion Ohio State ($20.3 million).
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Clayton is just the 15th player in the modern era to go for more than 30 in a Final Four game, joining a list of heavy hitters that includes Danny Manning, Glen Rice, Danny Ferry, Sean Elliott and Carmelo Anthony.
    Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Major leaguer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/major%20leaguer. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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