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as in blood brother
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Recent Examples of main man
But for the Milwaukee Bucks, their main man was nowhere to be seen.
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Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
In effect, Modi had gone from being America’s main man to playing third banana at China’s banquet.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
Yes, the franchise's main man, Keanu Reeves, shows up as well, but the action flick keeps its focus on de Armas' dancer/assassin as she's introduced into a dangerous landscape and then goes rogue on a revenge mission.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 July 2025
The defender signed a five-year contract last summer, so Fulham can demand a substantial fee for one of their main men.
—Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for main man
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There are big boys throwing their weight around, and there are wild skinnies with flying arms and spinning back-kicks, chopping out their emergency version of personal space.—
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The wins against the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs were not an accident, or luck; Williams has made a big boy impact.—
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In the first Manitou film, Herbig played Abahachi, chief of the Apache, who is inseparable from his blood brother Ranger (Christian Tramitz) since the latter saved Abahachi from a speeding train at an unguarded railroad crossing.—
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The film examines the exhilarating and uncanny experience of meeting a blood brother for the first time in adulthood.—
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The comedy big guns come out to pay their respects to the groundbreaking genius whose comedy is still radical — Ben Stiller, Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Dave Chappelle, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are just a few.—
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Sunday’s iteration – David Pastrnak-Pavel Zacha-Casey Mittelstadt – finished minus-2 and were outplayed by the Sens’ big guns.—
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During the episode, Cher told Shepard that his wife Kristen Bell deserves a better partner.—
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Other times, the passive partner is employed but does almost no parenting or caring for the home.—
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Anyone who has flown over or driven by farms in arid states – as close to Ohio as Indiana – has seen the crop circles and the big sprinkler pipes that move on big wheels.—
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Still, expect short overhangs and big wheels, even if not quite the size of these absurdly chrome 24-inchers.—
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According to Damon's brother Kyle, however, the two A-listers of today weren't such hot shots around campus back then.—
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Instead, strings were pulled in the Venezuelan Communist Party and Ilich and his brother were found places at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow.—
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Nah, that's for the fat cats and money-grubbers.—
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Though many corporations could still afford suites, fat cats high-fiving while their employees lost their jobs and their companies were taking bailouts was a bad look.—
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Malcolm’s sister Coreen and brother Charles expressed their frustration with the sentencing.—
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McCracken’s is the naughty older sister view of writing.—
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“Main man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/main%20man. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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