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Recent Examples of top dog
This nutcracker, though, is the top dog of all nutcrackers.
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Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
The beauty of this situation is the reason a school like Miami schedules a top dog like Florida.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
Mike McLusky may be top dog but power can only be maintained by continuing to instill fear in his enemies.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The Toronto Maple Leafs, usually the town’s top dog, showed baseball on the big screen after their home opener; the Leafs will also shift the start time of their Canadian Thanksgiving matinee to better accommodate baseball.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025
The beauty of this situation is the reason a school like Miami schedules a top dog like Florida.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
Mike McLusky may be top dog but power can only be maintained by continuing to instill fear in his enemies.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The Toronto Maple Leafs, usually the town’s top dog, showed baseball on the big screen after their home opener; the Leafs will also shift the start time of their Canadian Thanksgiving matinee to better accommodate baseball.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top dog
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Getty Images Since the June strikes, Iran’s rulers have been weakened by street protests, suppressed at a cost of thousands of lives, against a cost-of-living crisis driven in part by international sanctions that have strangled the country’s oil income.—
Max Burman,
NBC news,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Gulf, and the world beyond, favors dealing with a strong ruler who can muscle his way through necessary reforms unlike, say, the situation in neighboring Lebanon.—
Alaa Shahine Salha,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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She is seen as neither a strategic titan nor a challenge dominator.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Feb. 2026
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Dayne’s older brother, Dominic, was a two-time state placer at West Aurora — including last season’s runner-up finish as a senior — and is now wrestling in college at Ohio.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Former Survivor players write Cuomo’s name down on a ballot, including season-43 winner Yam Yam Arocho, season-45 fifth-placer Katurah Topps, and season-48 first-out Stephanie Berger, who is hopefully casting her first successful vote.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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But perhaps the biggest antidote to The Studio’s overdog problem is that its fat-cat Apple TV+ profile can easily be spun as good for everybody.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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This team has cast off its familiar underdog mantle and embraced being the overdog.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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“Top dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20dog. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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