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eminence

[em-uh-nuhns] / ˈɛm ə nəns /




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“Nobody plans to run deficits forever,” Baicker said, adding that the investments were aimed at increasing the university’s academic eminence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

We now live in an era that can be safely summarized as the end of science's peacetime, and perhaps the end of the general eminence of once mighty institutions of higher learning.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025

Tendulkar's spectacular rise to eminence following his world record 664-runs partnership with Vinod Kambli in a school game way back in 1987, had inspired quite a few batting prodigies, especially from Mumbai.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

Even for orchestras of Cleveland’s eminence and civic stature, people simply weren’t showing up.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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