leading figure
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His father was at the time emerging as a leading figure in the opposition to the U.S.-backed monarch who then ruled Iran, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
In his ten years of work, he has become a leading figure in Senegal's alternative music scene, demonstrating that not all of the country's hits have to be in its homegrown Mbalax style.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Architect Alan Pullman and his family recently bought and renovated a 1940 Long Beach house by Raphael Soriano, who had worked for Richard Neutra and was a leading figure in Southern California midcentury modernism.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
Mirkin is a leading figure in chemistry and nanomedicine, serving as the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Medicine at Northwestern.
From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025
Within months, he had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a leading figure of the movement for democracy in Russia.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
