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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
Picking third, the Cavs were in the catbird seat.
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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
And Shanae is in the catbird seat, still mulling over whether to pick Logan or James.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
The Hilton Nashville Downtown is the city’s most convenient hotel, on the catbird seat nestled between Broadway and Bridgestone Arena.
—Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
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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
And Shanae is in the catbird seat, still mulling over whether to pick Logan or James.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2022
The Hilton Nashville Downtown is the city’s most convenient hotel, on the catbird seat nestled between Broadway and Bridgestone Arena.
—Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catbird seat
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But Herro has been the more efficient player, with advantages in shooting percentage (47.4 to 44.9) and three-point percentage (40.4 to 39.0) and turnovers (2.3 per game to Lillard’s 2.8).—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
25 Jan. 2025
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With a small majority in the Senate, and a wafer-thin GOP advantage in the House, this is just wishful thinking on the part of Rep. Ogles.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
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Wealth and power tend to hog center stage and crowd out the supporting cast.—
David Galef/Chicago Tribune,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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But there’s been an ever-so-gradual welcoming of older players back to center stage, often at more advanced ages than was the norm even in a less age-conscious era(*).—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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During Vrabel’s early days in Tennessee, players would walk into team meetings on edge.—
Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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The job market is always shifting, but staying adaptable gives you the edge.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The episode cast a spotlight on the room for overreach in relatively obscure parts of the government, in this instance an agency in the Department of Homeland Security called the Office of Intelligence and Analysis.—
Eileen Sullivan,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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This bracket size has given those with the talent and ability to win it all an opportunity to sort it out on the field, while providing a shot and a spotlight to just enough more schools that deserve it.—
Chris Vannini,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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This history shows that buying territory in the Arctic has been a longstanding practice for geopolitical rivals struggling to gain an upper hand and ensure their own defense.—
James Patton Rogers & Caroline Kennedy Pipe / Made by History ,
TIME,
23 Jan. 2025
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Related Articles Firefighters gain upper hand after 80-acre Bonsall fire forces evacuations in California Editorial: Colorado’s new last-resort insurance company shares a name with California’s.—
Lauren Penington,
The Denver Post,
23 Jan. 2025
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Since it was created by ESPN (which remains a minority investor after selling the majority stake in 2022), the series received top billing alongside the major team leagues that its networks and over-the-air sibling ABC telecasted daily.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Bay Area pop-rock act Green Day is set to headline on Day 1 (May 23), while hitmaker Justin Timberlake and the increasingly popular Noah Kahan take top billing on Day 2 and Day 3, respectively.—
Jim Harrington,
The Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2025
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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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Related Articles Silicon Valley bigwigs bask in Trump limelight in major reversal at inauguration OpenAI whistleblower’s death fuels ‘conspiracy theory’ boosted by Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Bay Area congressman Goldberg: Can the Democrats be the party of the future again?—
Christopher Thornberg,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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And if ever there was a limelight moment in that regard, AMD found it with the introduction of its new chip and platform architecture formerly known by the code name Strix Halo, and unveiled officially last week as Ryzen AI Max Series.—
Dave Altavilla,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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