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also muck-a-muck
or mucky-muck
as in heavyweight
one of high position or importance within a group
the obituary mentioned that he was a muckety-muck in several service clubs
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This after the high muckety-mucks of the party (folks named Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, James Carville and others) executed a backroom coup against President Joe Biden that undid the clear mandate of millions of Democratic primary voters.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024
Four years earlier, movie muckety-mucks had collected here to found the academy, and here, as legend tells it, MGM’s art director, Cedric Gibbons, sketched out the Oscar statuette on a linen hotel napkin.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024
Four years earlier, movie muckety-mucks had collected here to found the academy, and here, as legend tells it, MGM’s art director, Cedric Gibbons, sketched out the Oscar statuette on a linen hotel napkin.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muckety-muck
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Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing to do battle one last time with Lee, disguised here as an eccentric real estate magnate.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Though the then-real estate magnate envisioned selling 50 limos, only a handful were ever manufactured.Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024
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With this year's costumes trend predicted to be extra pop-culture heavy, some obvious duo costumes, like Deadpool and Wolverine, come to mind.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
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The Butcher locks in for Summertime Butch, a project that captures the Buffalo heavy lyrically prancing across ten tracks filled with plug talk and nods to his opulent lifestyle.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 9 Aug. 2024
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Our central characters fall neatly into easy tropes: insecure aging starlet, conniving sexpot, and misogynistic bigwig pig.Abby Monteil, Them, 20 Sep. 2024
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Brady presses Riley and Shaw to work more quickly, given that the mayor and various other bigwigs are demanding updates.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 3 Oct. 2024
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This is the place where presidents, kings, queens, and heads of state have stayed.Martin Vassolo, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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Horror movie master John Carpenter by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube FROM THE ARCHIVES: Horror movie master John Carpenter (YouTube Video) From 2017: The filmmaker who is king of things that go bump in the night is a musical master of horror as well.David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Out of Africa Wildlife Park provides an intimate look at lions, tigers, hippos, giraffes and plenty more.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
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Whichever foundry has the latest and greatest technology will win the lion’s share of all the chip designer’s business.Craig Barrett, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
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The first looks at interesting facts about the cemetery, the second dives into notable people buried there, and the third highlights the prominent beer barons also buried at the cemetery. Take a look at the videos below.David Wysong, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2024
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Following the baron’s death, the museum closed its doors in 2007.Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
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