pooh-bah
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NFL instant replay pooh-bah Mark Butterworth later explained the ruling thusly:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
And the grand pooh-bah of the contemporary musical movie score, Lin-Manuel Miranda, provides a spellbinding soundtrack of songs combining salsa, bachata and hip-hop played with traditional folk instruments from Colombia.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
Taken at a time when the president-elect was famed as a billionaire real estate pooh-bah, it served as the cover image for his autobiographical book “Trump: Surviving at the Top.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Even Dennis Basso, the grand pooh-bah of fur for 30 years, appears to be diversifying.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2013
It was Peggy McNutt, the fish-eyed pooh-bah of Millville, who was represented sitting on his front porch engaged in painting his wooden foot.
From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
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