top dog

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Recent Examples of top dog Harry felt William was the top dog and always received preferential treatment. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025 There's a new top dog with a Best in Show title. Kelli Bender, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Their list uses their registration statistics to determine the top dogs, so the list only includes purebred dogs. Sarah Scanlan, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 Seminole was previously the top dog in Seminole County with large-class state championships in 2008 and 2020. Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for top dog
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Noun
  • With the sun and your celestial ruler, Venus, moving through your seventh house of other people, everything from your connections, whether romantic, professional or otherwise, to your contractual agreements is at the forefront.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The history books say that the French colonial regime exercised firm control over the emperor until the Japanese invasion ended French administration in Indochina in 1945; Bao Dai remained as an essentially powerless ruler until the Viet Minh seized power a few months later.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The puzzle dominator reveals the nickname his rival tribe came up with for him and shares all the original Hina tribe dynamics that did not make it to air.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The left-hander has blown away his previous career highs in innings and strikeouts and is a lock to finish among the top placers in the American League Cy Young Award vote.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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