coryphaeus

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coryphaeus
Noun
  • More than 100 people packed a community meeting with Cincinnati leaders Tuesday night that had been scheduled before the fight.
    Enquirer staff, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
  • Austin arts leaders are partnering with businesses, governments and backers in refreshing, unprecedented ways.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Modern American presidents have called their domestic political opponents, or enemies, many things over the years, but never a traitor.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 July 2025
  • In the game, traitors are secretly chosen at the outset while the remaining contestants must work together to unmask them before being eliminated themselves.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • And, of course, my fantasy went right to some kind of renegade character along the lines of Saw Gerrera.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 May 2025
  • The director Doris Wishman was a renegade: a woman who made lurid exploitation films at a time when American underground cinema was a man’s playground.
    Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 2 June 2025
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“Coryphaeus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coryphaeus. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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