as in bigs
the highest level of a field of endeavor
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Recent Examples of major leagues
Baseball has been slower than most major leagues to bring women into its officiating ranks.
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Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for major leagues
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That changes the spacing for the bigs, who have to work in tighter confines without Cunningham and eventually Clark pulling defenders out of the paint.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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Waiving Bradley without seeing how healthy those two bigs are would be irresponsible.—
Tony East,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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That 2022 validation — Nvidia invested about $900 million into the company, now worth more than $2 billion — launched CoreWeave into the AI big leagues with access to the chipmaker’s most advanced products to build the powerful data centers used to serve and train many of OpenAI’s models.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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With prices so high, media companies are narrowing their packages, leaving some big leagues like the NBA spread across more networks and streamers.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Major leagues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/major%20leagues. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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