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With just four years in the office, he is emblematic of the state’s declining clout in the nation’s capital.

Still, I’d bet a million nickels that Ross will use the clout of this nomination to create more marvelous works.

How's Trump going to get rid of Musk now that he's shown he has more clout with the base than he does?

Harmony Holiday: What is this pattern wherein you can trade the currency of Black glamour to become an overt grifter, a clout chaser with no vocation but that — an “industry plant”?

But as it navigates anger at home, the loss of its lynchpin in Syria – after so many other blows to its regional clout – has made the job of Iran's rulers a lot more tricky.