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kingpins of the movie industry
a police sting that nabbed several kingpins of the city's drug trade
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Earlier in the week, at least six prisons guarding some of the nation’s most hardened crime kingpins came under gun and arson attack.
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Reuters, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
Adrian Peeler, a Connecticut drug kingpin, had already served time for his role in the execution of a witness and her eight-year-old son before entering federal prison.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth almost $3 trillion.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
In Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem, a new chapter unfolds with the introduction of a young Frank Lucas—long before the world came to know him as a notorious drug kingpin.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025
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Reuters, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
Adrian Peeler, a Connecticut drug kingpin, had already served time for his role in the execution of a witness and her eight-year-old son before entering federal prison.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth almost $3 trillion.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
In Season 4 of Godfather of Harlem, a new chapter unfolds with the introduction of a young Frank Lucas—long before the world came to know him as a notorious drug kingpin.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Kingpin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kingpin. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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