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- noun Plural form of
poohbah .
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Examples
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So Dick Cheney, one of the poohbahs whom Leebaert gleefully eviscerates, promised us that "the [Iraqi] people will be so happy with their freedoms [after a U.S. invasion] that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two."
Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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How refreshing to read a smart, polemical book that is deliciously rude to many grand poohbahs of our time while making good sense about the mess the United States now finds itself in across the globe.
Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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How refreshing to read a smart, polemical book that is deliciously rude to many grand poohbahs of our time while making good sense about the mess the United States now finds itself in across the globe.
Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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So Dick Cheney, one of the poohbahs whom Leebaert gleefully eviscerates, promised us that "the [Iraqi] people will be so happy with their freedoms [after a U.S. invasion] that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two."
Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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* Journalistic poohbahs like a Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the New York Times should stop pretending that for every wacko on the Right there's one on the Left.
Mark Green: The "Mad" Party -- When the Base Goes Beserk 2010
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One of the key aspects of the poohbahs of the punditocracy that goes relatively unnoticed is how childish so many of them are.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The World As it 'Ought to Be' 2010
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At the Spartanburg fundraiser, she mugged for pictures with new fans, locked eyes intently on those she met, and listened solicitously to the party poohbahs.
Woman On the Verge 2010
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One of the key aspects of the poohbahs of the punditocracy that goes relatively unnoticed is how childish so many of them are.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: The World As it 'Ought to Be' 2010
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* Journalistic poohbahs like a Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the New York Times should stop pretending that for every wacko on the Right there's one on the Left.
Mark Green: The "Mad" Party -- When the Base Goes Beserk 2010
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* Journalistic poohbahs like a Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the New York Times should stop pretending that for every wacko on the Right there's one on the Left.
Mark Green: The "Mad" Party -- When the Base Goes Beserk 2010
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