as in heavyweights
one of high position or importance within a group
a field in which one can go from being a big-timer to a small-timer in practically no time at all
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Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.—
Sumeet Vaidya,
Fortune,
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Now, those two heavyweights are set to duke it out on Saturday night with a trip to the national championship game on the line.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Until April 4, 2026, the lasting memory between these transcendent but antithetical bigs was that of Jokic’s signature shot thwarted.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
5 Apr. 2026
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After small ball was all the rage during the late 2010s, NBA teams are now playing lineups with two bigs more frequently.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Specifically, Alioto sought to reimagine the magazine as a many-pronged vehicle for promising tastes—like those of regular contributors and critical heavies, Grace Byron and Greta Rainbow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Absinthe-eyed, she projectile-vomits blunt observations and also oysters onto the heavies, overimbibing her way into her own grave once she’s inevitably discarded with a shot and shove down a stairwell (a barely-there John Magaro plays one of the gangsters).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Big-timers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big-timers. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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