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- noun A highly
skilled orprominent agent, particularly inshow business
Etymologies
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Examples
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While Rahm is almost always in the spotlight, Ari was front-page news this spring when his Endeavor talent agency merged with the William Morris Agency, leaving him at the top of a huge new agency _ a "superagent," as he's usually called.
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Mr. Pellicano, who is serving as his own lawyer, asserted in his cross-examination that Mr. Reynolds had bragged about bugging his own supervisor — no name was mentioned — at Condé Nast and that Mr. Reynolds had provided him with a prepublication copy of a Vanity Fair article (widely assumed to be about the Hollywood 'superagent' Michael S. Ovitz). "
Vanity Fair's Burrough: 'Everyone in Hollywood Got an Advance Copy of That Article' 2008
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He parted ways with superagent Scott Boras, saying he wanted an agent who would help him focus more on his work in the community.
A Yankee Finds His Home Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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The superagent on upholding great literature in an e-reading world .
Andrew Wylie 2011
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You're a super-villain and you want to prepare a transparency (the kind that goes on an overhead projector) with the key points of your plan for world domination so you can present them to the hero/superagent before you attempt to kill him in some ridiculously novel way.
Boing Boing 2009
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Chuck's Zachary Levi interrogates costar and new superagent Joshua Gomez.
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Photos: From Taxi Driver to "The Jackal" See Wylie's transformation from soulful bohemian to buttoned-up superagent.
Andrew Wylie 2011
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The good news: Leading lady Joanne Kelly is still with us as Myka Bering, even though the tough, vulnerable, funny and deliciously dishy superagent quit her job in the Season 2 finale after her trust in H.G. Wells Jaime Murray almost led the end of the world.
She's Back! Joanne Kelly Dishes on the Warehouse 13 Season Premiere 2011
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I also enjoyed her profiles of a young woman who works as the sole reporter at a small town newspaper, another woman who runs a store that only sells buttons, and Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers.
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But as defined by Ms. Jolie, and by Mr. Wimmer, our title character is less superagent than superhero.
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