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luminary

noun as in very important person

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The many emails between the men are also sprinkled with casual references to other political luminaries—as well as burner phones.

The pontiff released the list via video ahead of a planned meeting Saturday with luminaries from the world of cinema.

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In audio versions, two luminaries of the performing-arts world tell their stories in ways very different in delivery but alike in their wealth of fascinating detail.

Retired tech titans and social media luminaries can no more control the development of AI by banning it than the Catholic Church could undo the fact that Earth revolves around the sun by imprisoning Galileo.

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Another Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, once said that his yacht, the 325-foot Christina O—which hosted luminaries including Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy—was “the best office in the world.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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