clout

He arrived in Washington with significantly less clout and influence than he had on past visits, officials said, and came highly attuned to what the president would want to discuss—or what would set him off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

How much clout and authority is it given?

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the shift underscores a dramatic loss of clout by Comcast and other traditional media enterprises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Beijing began using its excess dollars to make loans in the developing world, boosting its clout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

This may have spoken to his clout, since there often wasn’t room in there.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Kecmanovic gets himself to deuce on the Monfils serve, so Monfils clouts down an ace and quickly closes out.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2022

His clouts were described by The Times as “gigantic.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire’s mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2015

The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire's mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.

From US News ● Oct. 9, 2015

Here they found that the married women wore clouts of cotton, but not the young girls, except a few who were over eighteen years of age.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.