pooh-bah

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Recent Examples of pooh-bah This kind of surgical enhancement can still be frowned upon in the restoration world, decried as fakery by the pooh-bahs of all-original-everything. Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 13 July 2024 To Richardson-Merrell’s pooh-bahs, her scrutiny seemed like the dilatory work of someone who didn’t know how the game was played. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024 Like Joe Rogan, the carnivorous pooh-bah of this intellectual space, Brand appeared interested in teaching a certain kind of man how to be a certain kind of man, mining the tension between think-for-yourself riffs and listen-to-me conclusions. Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 But the pooh-bahs in Brussels didn’t exactly rush to say yes. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pooh-bah
Noun
  • Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar led the legal comedy alongside several TV heavyweights.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And this is a classic 'High Noon' toe-to-toe showdown-at-the-corral heavyweight fight.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The same goes for the Miami Dolphins’ Stephen Ross, a real estate magnate who was flat year-over-year and is worth $17 billion.
    Justin Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Charnvirakul, a construction magnate, succeeds Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a member of the powerful Shinawatra family who was suspended in July after a phone call with a former Cambodian leader was leaked.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After killing off Jon Hamm’s oil tycoon Monty Miller, the season one finale set up Tommy to take over his late boss’ oil company alongside Monty’s wife, Cami, played by Demi Moore.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Not dabblers in the slave trade, tycoons of the slave trade.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1600s the British parliament firmly established its predominance over the king, while Europe saw the rise of absolute monarchies in the then-great continental powers of Spain and France.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Fort Lauderdale alerted residents that the heavy rain in recent days, coupled with king tides, put some major roads in the city underwater this week.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the fashion types begin to migrate to New York for the start of fashion week, the C-suite bigwigs were leaning in on Wall Street, courting investors at Goldman Sachs’ annual retail conference.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Any corporate bigwig who doesn’t donate generously to Trump’s presidential library — or to Republican campaigns — may soon be a former corporate bigwig.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Pooh-bah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pooh-bah. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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