as in heavyweight
one of high position or importance within a group
interviewed by several bigwigs on the hospital's staff
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Recent Examples of bigwig
So all signs seem to be pointing to this tiny demon being at least a bigwig in the halls of Hell, if not the devil himself.
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Profitability—the point at which a film’s investors begin to see returns—is also of the utmost importance to studio bigwigs, sometimes to movie-lovers’ chagrin.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
On Ransom Canyon, Minka Kelly's Quinn vacillates between feelings for wealthy rancher and town bigwig, Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), and longtime crush, salt-of-the-earth rancher, Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Two people, however, instantly and definitively identify Barinholtz: a pair of agency bigwigs leaving a breakfast meeting.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
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Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Profitability—the point at which a film’s investors begin to see returns—is also of the utmost importance to studio bigwigs, sometimes to movie-lovers’ chagrin.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
On Ransom Canyon, Minka Kelly's Quinn vacillates between feelings for wealthy rancher and town bigwig, Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), and longtime crush, salt-of-the-earth rancher, Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Two people, however, instantly and definitively identify Barinholtz: a pair of agency bigwigs leaving a breakfast meeting.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigwig
Noun
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All season long, New York has struggled to contain stretch bigs.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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In his absence, Kornet dominated the paint, finally tilting the floor back toward the Celtics when the Knicks deployed two bigs; a lineup that had been dogging Boston in this series.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Wingard’s sequel is a bit more abstract than its predecessor, focusing too much on strange world-building and too little on the battle between our two beloved heavies.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
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Harry heads back to the yard, where a group of Kevin's Czechoslovakian hired heavies are preparing for war.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The brand is a jewel in the crown of luxury magnate Bernard Arnault, the founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, who has owned Dior since 1984.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
29 May 2025
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But the character is more of a riff on the real-life oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man at the time of his death in 1955 and a template for today’s globe-roaming magnates who pledge allegiance only to their own ambitions.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Apart from the sale of primary shares, Maynilad Water Holding—which counts Metro Pacific, tycoon Isidro Consunji’s DMCI Holdings and Japan’s Marubeni Corp. among its shareholders—will sell 354.7 million shares at the IPO price, raising an additional 7.1 billion pesos in a secondary offering.—
Ian Sayson,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Bigwig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigwig. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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