lions

noun

plural of lion
as in magnates
a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field the book festival brought together two lions of contemporary poetry for a joint reading

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Recent Examples of lions Some cities have vicious parking enforcement people who sit and wait like lions in the grass. — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 3 June 2026 Circe is able, by means of drugs and incantations, to change humans into wolves, lions, and other animals. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026 Alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, and bears might have to become supper. — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026 The park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, enormous hippo populations, chimpanzee tracking, volcanic crater lakes, wetlands and savannah ecosystems. — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 The zoo's lions Scarlett and Hondo welcomed the lion cub a little more than two months ago on Easter Sunday, April 5. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 June 2026 According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 Some time later, Umbro even released a special New Order version of it, with a World In Motion logo replacing the three lions national crest. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 28 June 2026 Over several days in the country, the trip — Stefano Ricci’s ninth — spanned the Tarangire region guarded by the Maasai, and the Serengeti national park with its rich wildlife, including leopards and families of lions and lionesses and their cubs appearing in campaign imagery. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
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  1. magnates
  2. tycoons
  3. kings
  4. princes
Noun
  • The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
    — Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of magnates
Noun
  • Set in the eponymous Texas metropolis, Dallas followed the Ewings, a powerful family of oil tycoons and ranch owners whose feuds and foibles made for wildly entertaining primetime viewing.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 June 2026
  • Three of Paxton’s billionaire backers were Texas-native tycoons with a history of funding right-wing candidates in the state, one of whom died after his donation.
    — Andrew Balaban, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of tycoons
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  • Stock Chart IconStock chart icon Gold not glittering As for gold, while the yellow metal has traditionally been sought out by kings and paupers throughout history alike, the anaemic gold price has puzzled experts.
    — Lim Hui Jie,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Unfortunately, a group of eastern kings pillage Sodom and Gomorrah and take Lot captive along with others.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Definition of kings
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  • The two estranged princes – now fathers and husbands – have only seen one another a handful of times in the last four years.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • With nanny Olga Powell and mom Diana, the young princes enjoyed an open-sleigh ride in Lech, Austria, on March 30, 1993.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Definition of princes

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