as in nobodies
a person of no importance or influence
among astronomers she's considered a lightweight
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Recent Examples of lightweights
Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
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Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2026
Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
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Marcia Dunn,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
The card will also feature several other San Diego-area boxers, including super lightweights Daniel Morales (8-0, 5 KOs) and Angel Juan Estrada (12-1-1, 9 KOs).
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Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Hughes is one of the world's top lightweights in MMA, the sport where McGregor built his following and name.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2026
Jupiter, by comparison, is as much as 35 times denser than these two lightweights.
—
Marcia Dunn,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2026
The card will also feature several other San Diego-area boxers, including super lightweights Daniel Morales (8-0, 5 KOs) and Angel Juan Estrada (12-1-1, 9 KOs).
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Ivan Carter,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Hughes is one of the world's top lightweights in MMA, the sport where McGregor built his following and name.
—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightweights
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Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
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Despite the tragicomic instability and the rotating cast of nobodies temporarily tasked with running the country, when seen in macroeconomic terms, Peru appears to be doing just fine, thank you.
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Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.
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As zonky cross-generational ciphers go, the group’s debut, Strictly 4 the Scythe, is no Hypnotize Camp Posse, the amalgam of Three 6 Mafia and a grip of artists signed to their Hypnotize Minds label in the early 2000s.
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As virality goes, this is not a big number, but the passion that the account has aroused dwarfs its reach.
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Major props to the dwarfs who saw this as a convenient way to score help in the cleaning department.
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At best, marigolds confuse or repel soft-bodied insects in small areas, adds Rezk.
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Along the way, the insects can look and behave very differently at each stage.
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“Lightweights.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightweights. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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