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foremost

[fawr-mohst, -muhst, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌmoʊst, -məst, ˈfoʊr- /


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“The country’s foremost melanoma specialists stood behind the RP1 data,” Patel said at the time.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Mr. Auslin stresses that it came to be seen “as a defense first and foremost of individual rights.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

“I am, first and foremost, focused on making government deliver results that make a real difference in people’s lives,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

It’s not trivializing this summit or missing the point, I would argue, to understand it as first and foremost a semiotic spectacle, conducted through language, symbols and signifiers.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

They had a variety of professional commitments, but they regarded themselves as first and foremost mathematicians, and many of them made major contributions to pure mathematics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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