man of the moment
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Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said Mbappe is the man of the moment but backed his team to succeed despite his arrival in Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
That began with a brilliant break from man of the moment Ioan Lloyd, who took a quick line-out, eyed a gap and weaved his way 50 metres through the mist of the pyrotechnics.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023
But he seemed to be the man of the moment.
From Slate • Dec. 2, 2023
The trainers and trainees stood in a circle and, one by one, shared their birthday wishes for the man of the moment.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
No other man of the moment was on the whole so well able to combine the elements of Southern politics against those more negative elements of which Toombs was the symbol.
From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)
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