STANDARD-BEARER Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

standard-bearer

noun

Definition of standard-bearer

as in leader

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Recent Examples of standard-bearer Among the earliest members of Bond’s AV department and its standard-bearer for the craft ever since, with Clio and Golden Trailer recognition spanning Insidious, The Pitt, The Penguin, Hacks, and Welcome to Derry and Smile. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026 Now, large parts of the city's democratic socialist left no longer see her as their standard-bearer, even though she is routinely portrayed by critics as the face of that coalition. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026 Without Fedorov in charge of the ministry of defense, Ukraine’s revolution in warfare will lose its standard-bearer and a lot of its momentum—just when those innovations appeared to be paying off. — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 The message is a remarkable one coming from the state’s Democratic standard-bearer, who will likely be expected to unify left-leaning voters behind the party’s eventual nominee in the aftermath of a contentious primary. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for standard-bearer

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Noun

There are also higher-order issues that Fortune 500 leaders must consider.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
Many tech leaders generally say their goal is to develop the technology in ways that promote safety, address legal liability, feed economic growth, advance science and preserve national security.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of leader

Noun

Randy Sadler is a risk management expert and serves as principal and CMO at CIC Services, a captive insurance management firm.

— Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Susan Morrisey headed the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance in the late 1990s and is now a principal with SE2, a behavior-change marketing agency that has worked on tobacco prevention for three decades.

— Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of principal

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Bartholow reported to her superiors at SEIU California that Regan stood uncomfortably close and hovered over her at the bar at a fundraiser for the state Senate leader in San Diego in March as tensions flared over the billionaire tax.

— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Nobody seems to work much, though, the employees are consumed by gossip, crushes, and confusion about their coworkers, superiors, and others who lurk in their building.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of superior

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The court had unsealed an arrest warrant for Ronald Marapon dela Rosa, who served as national police chief under Duterte.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Authored by Wall Street Journal reporter Robbie Whelan, THR hears that among the topics set to be covered will be Iger’s friendship-turned-rivalry with former Marvel chief Ike Perlmutter.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026

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Between 26 and 35 vessels per day have transited this week, down from the 35 to 40 daily average of the prior eight weeks, according to Dimitris Ampatzidis, maritime risk and compliance manager at Kpler.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
Young texted the Triple-A manager on his way out of Wrigley Field, asking to be put in the lineup that night.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of manager

Noun

The incidents exposed the difficulty of achieving a safety principle called alignment, in which AI takes into account the ethics and goals of its human overseers, Jackson said.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Federal auditors and court rulings have spotlighted LAHSA’s financial and data weaknesses, prompting a nationwide search for new overseers of the region’s federal homeless funding, data systems and housing placements.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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