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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At her six-month review, and after almost 10 years as a high-flyer in her job, she was told she would not make her performance target.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
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
You take my word for it, boys, I've always considered her a high-flyer myself, but, just the same, people here do tell awful whoppers ... and swear to them.
From The Torrent Entre Naranjos by Goldberg, Isaac
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