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It’s ridiculous that our chiefest, most visible civic icon and landmark shouldn’t serve the city’s interest better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2023

Reading great prose is one of my chiefest joys.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Three words pretty much sum up the chiefest reasons for chief executives’ pilgrimages here: gold, glory and golf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

The chiefest among them is still Shakespeare, who has, I think, no equal for variety and richness of character.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2012

He was instructed at the fountain intuitively, and so was “not a whit behind the chiefest apostles.”

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook



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