Examples of bigwig in a Sentence
a bigwig in local politics
interviewed by several bigwigs on the hospital's staff
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Kevin's wife Bella (Lara Pulver) is meeting her estranged dad, an apparent government bigwig with powerful friends.
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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Programmatic ads from a number of prominent companies, including tech stalwarts like Asana and Oracle, ecommerce bigwig Net-A-Porter, makeup giant Sephora, and resort chain Kalahari Resorts, appeared while WIRED was monitoring these websites.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
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
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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Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Programmatic ads from a number of prominent companies, including tech stalwarts like Asana and Oracle, ecommerce bigwig Net-A-Porter, makeup giant Sephora, and resort chain Kalahari Resorts, appeared while WIRED was monitoring these websites.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
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
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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“Bigwig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigwig. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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