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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
Their continued inability to slay the Bengals knocks them from the conference's catbird seat.
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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
Of the two Democratic leaders, Newsom had the easier path to the political catbird seat.
—John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
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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
Of the two Democratic leaders, Newsom had the easier path to the political catbird seat.
—John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for catbird seat
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But that is becoming its strength: the G-20 has a comparative advantage in conferring legitimacy to collective action in an era when many global South states feel that the G-7 is no longer fit for purpose and efforts to reform the UN Security Council’s membership have hit a brick wall.Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
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After the margin shrunk to a few hundred votes on Election Day, Campos now holds a 2,442-vote advantage after the release of the most recent ballot results.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The third chapter in Eddie Brock’s unexpected bromance with a symbiote named Venom puts their relationship on center stage once more, as their union now creates an existential threat to the people of Earth.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
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Natural language processors like GPT have made AI accessible to anyone with a keyboard and a grasp of grammar, leading to an explosion in hype that has put artificial intelligence on center stage ever since.Darpan Munjal, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Greg Alder has had great success growing raspberries on the eastern edge of large trees.Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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Ribbons marked the edge of the area that will be logged.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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The restaurant can also be used to host collaborative pop-ups, helping to shine a spotlight on up-and-coming chefs.Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2024
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Caldwell originally dreamed up of the Devil’s Thumb climb as a way to shine a spotlight on the Tongass National Forest.Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
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Republicans led by former President Donald Trump still have an upper hand, largely because the GOP is still seen as the party with stronger free-market allegiances.Philip Elliott, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Its products have been credited as key to Turkey gaining an upper hand in its fight against Kurdish militants.Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and others may have received top billing in the Dark Knight trilogy of Batman movies, but one uncredited star of the films was its Batmobile, nicknamed the Tumbler.Brett Berk, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2024
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Even though other special events get top billing, the Chicago Marathon is one of the biggest economic drivers in the city.Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 10 Oct. 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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But while the memes and shares have in many ways defined the 2024 US presidential election, there's a whole world of moments that have occurred outside of the viral limelight.Alyssa Walker, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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The weight of his last eight years in the political limelight, and the end of his days campaigning, appeared on the mind of the ex-president Monday night.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Catbird seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catbird%20seat. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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