as in center stage
the center of public attention
despite being of epic proportions, the famine overseas rarely received top billing in the American press
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Recent Examples of top billing
As one of the genre’s premier artists since the late ’80s — first as a member of the groundbreaking hip-hop group DC Talk and later as a solo act — TobyMac deserves the top billing on the marquee.
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Counterpoint, though: Big Little Lies is far too much of an ensemble piece — Kidman shares the tableau with Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, and (to some extent) Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz, who all have their separate problems — to warrant top billing.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
But, the top billing goes to the Georgia-Texas matchup.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
Elba, a Golden Globe winner and chairman of the IE7 and The Akuna Group, is joined on the top billing by former Netflix exec and co-founder of Juno Studios, Fiona Lamptey, and Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Counterpoint, though: Big Little Lies is far too much of an ensemble piece — Kidman shares the tableau with Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, and (to some extent) Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz, who all have their separate problems — to warrant top billing.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
But, the top billing goes to the Georgia-Texas matchup.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
Elba, a Golden Globe winner and chairman of the IE7 and The Akuna Group, is joined on the top billing by former Netflix exec and co-founder of Juno Studios, Fiona Lamptey, and Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top billing
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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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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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The reason Gao is allegedly being silenced is for shining a brighter-than-usual spotlight on one of the biggest perception problems facing Xi’s Communist Party: that China routinely cooks the GDP books.William Pesek, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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Quarterback Matthew Stafford said that the Vikings were receiving the Rams’ full attention while the Rams were at the team’s facility in Woodland Hills.Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The legal battle over TikTok has attracted unusual attention due to its political and cultural significance.Nik Popli, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Top billing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20billing. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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