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Recent Examples of supremo
This shouldn't be a revelation considering Shah, as then Indian cricket supremo, attempted to hog the attention in the aftermath of India's T20 World Cup triumph.
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Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Frasers Group is the owner of a host of retail brands from Sports Direct and Evans Cycles to the House of Fraser department store chain, luxury fashion chain Flannels and multiple brands across apparel and sports, which colorful Frasers’ supremo Mike Ashley has been buying, often in distress sales.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Elsewhere, Jake’s piece looks into Gogglebox supremo Stephen Lambert’s position in the company, and addresses question marks over whether RedBird IMI’s Abu Dhabi backers could be an issue for production chiefs.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 June 2024
Instead, Xi, an aloof supremo with the license to rule for life, has embarked upon rounds of radical purges and crackdowns that have affected the ranks of China’s political elites and its private sector.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
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Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Frasers Group is the owner of a host of retail brands from Sports Direct and Evans Cycles to the House of Fraser department store chain, luxury fashion chain Flannels and multiple brands across apparel and sports, which colorful Frasers’ supremo Mike Ashley has been buying, often in distress sales.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Elsewhere, Jake’s piece looks into Gogglebox supremo Stephen Lambert’s position in the company, and addresses question marks over whether RedBird IMI’s Abu Dhabi backers could be an issue for production chiefs.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 June 2024
Instead, Xi, an aloof supremo with the license to rule for life, has embarked upon rounds of radical purges and crackdowns that have affected the ranks of China’s political elites and its private sector.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supremo
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To solve the murder of Treasury Department honcho Raymond King (J.K. Simmons, getting out while the getting is good) our fabled, antisocial hero forges an uneasy allegiance of convenience with the dead man’s protégé, Marybeth (Cynthia Addai-Robinson).—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Taylor Gang honcho is on the road in support of his Kush + Orange Juice 2 sequel album, which arrived on Friday (April 18).—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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The proposition that reporters unintentionally missed the full story of Biden’s decline is much more credible, and has been advanced not only by Thompson and Tapper but by numerous journalistic bigwigs, both now and in the immediate aftermath of the debate.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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Upset about being undercut, the Texas bigwig resolves to put Georgie out of business.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Lauder, a billionaire, philanthropist and son of the makeup magnate Estée Lauder, founded the initiative in 2022 as a way to increase access to Jewish day schools in America.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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Elsewhere, there’s Phoenix, San Diego and Jacksonville, not to mention the biggies — New York, LA, Chicago and Philly.—
Matt Leclercq,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2025
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The companies targeted were biggies like Alphabet, Apple, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and Boeing, which dismantled its DEI department last year.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
8 Jan. 2025
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The scenario’s bachelor No. 2 arrives in the brooding personage of Oliver (Charlie Anson), the great-great-great-great-nephew of Austen herself.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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In order to become a celebrity, a person necessarily becomes a personage.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
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The notables include: Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition (2025) brings the beloved action-RPG to the Switch with the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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Other notables who have been diagnosed with ALS include Stephen Hawking, Lou Gehrig, Roberta Flack, Dennis Day, Steve Gleason and Aaron Lazar.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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During the live auction Saturday night the action is guaranteed to be fast and the bids high as people typically pay huge bucks for VIP, Hollywood experiences.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2025
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The only tickets for sale are for a non-musical component of Unplugged, the 21-and-up VIP Beer & Food Combo, a collaboration between Mission Brewing and Ponce’s Mexican Restaurant.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
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There are big guns, big swords and, by the sound of it, a whole lot of crazy.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
27 May 2025
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But that enemy once again includes potentially large numbers of North Koreans, as well as their big guns and missile launchers.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Supremo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supremo. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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