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as in advantage
the more favorable condition or position in a competition
your fluency in French should put you in the catbird seat for getting the Paris posting
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as in center stage
the center of public attention
in the wake of the natural disaster, this obscure bureaucrat was suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the catbird seat
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Recent Examples of catbird seat
Brat is what happens when an auteur is given a budget and the catbird seat in the boardroom.
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Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
The next guy to occupy the catbird seat is a name that might be familiar to New England football fans.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
Picking third, the Cavs were in the catbird seat.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 July 2021
Their continued inability to slay the Bengals knocks them from the conference's catbird seat.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
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Hazlitt, 17 July 2024
The next guy to occupy the catbird seat is a name that might be familiar to New England football fans.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
Picking third, the Cavs were in the catbird seat.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland, 30 July 2021
Their continued inability to slay the Bengals knocks them from the conference's catbird seat.
—Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catbird seat
Noun
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Those who embrace these technologies now will likely find themselves with a considerable advantage in the increasingly competitive digital landscape.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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And Osceola will continue to have homecourt advantage in the Finals against Stockton.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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In a TikTok shared on Sunday, March 16, an audience member spotted the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star sitting center stage at the iconic show.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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The cityscape just behind the Hollywood sign keeps the early to mid 20th century alive, thriving and center stage.—
Shelby Grad,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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A day after declaring their intention to capture large swathes of the crowded enclave, Israeli forces pushed into the city on Gaza's southern edge which had served as a last refuge for people fleeing other areas for much of the war.—
Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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And on the state’s far eastern edge, Shelby County, the poorest of the three, took on 307 cases.—
Ilana Panich-Linsman,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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That happens to play into an overall trend developing this season in which, post-LA wildfires, there is a spotlight on the shows that shot in California.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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The legal industry stands apart—and the resulting spotlight is not flattering.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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Firefighters on Sunday began to gain an upper hand on more than 170 wildfires in North and South Carolina that had prompted evacuations, officials said.—
Amy Graff,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article GAINESVILLE — Ailing and unable to gain an upper hand on Vanderbilt, No. 6 Florida turned to a 20-year-old sophomore from Slovenia to scratch out a critical SEC win.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2025
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And finally, that in the rolling TV production that is the Trump administration, there is one protagonist, executive producer and star who must get top billing.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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And for Perez, there is no doubt who takes top billing over bitter rival FC Barcelona's La Masia.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
24 Nov. 2024
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Microsoft’s whip hand, more than anything, else, comes down to cold hard cash.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
19 Nov. 2023
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The failure of the ‘red wave’ to materialize means that an old-fashioned socialist will have the whip hand over health care for the next two years.—
Joel Zinberg,
National Review,
30 Nov. 2022
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Ghost guns entered the public limelight again after suspect Luigi Mangione allegedly used such a device to shoot and kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
29 Jan. 2025
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Known mostly for his children’s books, L. Frank Baum has never really been out of the cultural limelight for more than a minute, with new generations of fans discovering his work.—
Nancy Olson,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Catbird seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catbird%20seat. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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