top billing

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I may be wrong about this, I didn’t have a stopwatch, but Ms. Hynes does receive top billing over Ms. Purvis in each episode’s opening credits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

So even though SpaceX gets top billing, Anthropic and OpenAI have fans, too.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The Lakers' supremacy in that era ensured their top billing.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

But in “Shucked,” the hilarious countrified musical that brought “Hee Haw”-style comedy in a modern guise to Broadway, corn finally gets top billing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

As an author, I was willing to let other people amend my work just so long as my name always got top billing.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam