high-flyer
Britishnoun
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a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc
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a person of great ability, esp in a career
Example Sentences
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The fragile screen separating savvy high-flyer and bereft sufferer cracks, irrevocably.
From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023
Bolton runs the aerial arts school High Expectations in Memphis, where Ja Morant, too, is a high-flyer, as the All-Star point guard of the N.B.A.’s Grizzlies.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
His grandfather was a famous senator, his father a high-flyer in the burgeoning aviation business.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2019
Anwar was once a high-flyer in the former ruling coalition but was convicted of homosexual sodomy and corruption after a power struggle in 1998 with Mahathir, who was prime minister for 22 years until 2003.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018
She certainly was not one of the high-flyer yachts which had been bought up for service in the Confederate navy.
From On The Blockade by Optic, Oliver
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