front rank
Example Sentences
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Mandelson had his front-rank political career resurrected three times subsequently: as an EU commissioner; as business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, and as ambassador to Washington in 2025.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023
On Skybolt rested Britain’s hopes of remaining a front-rank nuclear power.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019
Had Hitler delayed by a few years, Roberts suggests, Churchill would surely have been away from front-rank politics too long to “make himself the one indispensable figure.”
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2018
There are certain tests and evidences of a novelist's having attained a front-rank place in England which are unmistakable.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
