variants also muck-a-muck or mucky-muck

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Recent Examples of muckety-muck This after the high muckety-mucks of the party (folks named Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, James Carville and others) executed a backroom coup against President Joe Biden that undid the clear mandate of millions of Democratic primary voters. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2024 Four years earlier, movie muckety-mucks had collected here to found the academy, and here, as legend tells it, MGM’s art director, Cedric Gibbons, sketched out the Oscar statuette on a linen hotel napkin. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muckety-muck
Noun
  • FedEx is suing Donald Trump-supporting pillow magnate Mike Lindell for nearly $9 million in unpaid delivery fees.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The project soon attached Ed Harris to play James, a celebrated actor but failed property magnate.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • They’re supposed to be the reinforcements, the heavies, personally recruited by Quinn — a fugitive Army Intelligence Colonel! — and installed at Beck’s place, just like Paulie.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The other students find the burden of imperfect English heavy.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Free-market economics bigwigs, at the request of Trump, have assembled a team to push making the president’s 2017 tax cuts permanent — and to do it as quickly as possible.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, then, life later imitated art with tech bigwigs trying to use something similar to Johansson‘s voice to equip an LLM.
    John Werner, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Following his father’s death, T’Challa returns home to Wakanda, a secretive nation with impressive technological advancements, to take his place as king.
    Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • And a civilization in ancient Mesopotamia saw the blood red moon as a bad omen for the king.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Want to stream Mufasa: The Lion King from the comfort of your own coach without paying the lion’s share of another streaming subscription?
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Canada’s Leverage Of the 50 critical minerals, Canada owns the lion’s share of production of the top five--lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese—collectively, thanks to its domestic industry and its interest in international mines.
    Dipka Bhambhani, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Tech barons are moving forward with artificial intelligence programs at full speed, without regard for ethics, intellectual property rights, risks to our society, or energy demands.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Forest Home Cemetery is the final resting place for many of Milwaukee’s social elites and beer barons.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017

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“Muckety-muck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muckety-muck. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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