as in lightweights
a person of no importance or influence
some young whippersnapper piped up with a pointless comment
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Noun
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Hughes is one of the world's top lightweights in MMA, the sport where McGregor built his following and name.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies.—
Joe Kozlowski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Blind Owl is extremely dense, brimming with metaphors and ciphers and symbols.—
Amir Ahmadi Arian,
The Dial,
15 Jan. 2026
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Like Dostoyevsky, Capote doesn’t portray his killers as demonic ciphers, instead capturing their messy complexity.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Plus Brock and Sindri, the gear upgrade dwarves.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Iran has a grim history of crushing dissent, but the latest crackdown dwarfs anything seen during the repressive Islamic theocracy’s 47 years in power, evidence trickling out of Iran suggests.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
16 Jan. 2026
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Researchers closely studied how thrips respond to temperature, simulating cold and heat exposures to see how long the insects could survive.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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Elephants regularly take dust baths to rid their hides of insects and irritation.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Whippersnappers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whippersnappers. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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