pre-eminence
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These high-profile guests are aimed at maintaining public interest in the flights at a time when private space companies are vying for pre-eminence.
From Barron's • Dec. 20, 2025
If you throw in the rhetorical brilliance, the heart and the boundless wit that coursed through his greatest works, his pre-eminence is hard to challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
But does City’s pre-eminence mean England’s top division is in danger of becoming a turn-off for billions of fans around the world?
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024
If it's pre-eminence as a club competition started to be undermined by an absence of world football's biggest names, could clubs from outside Europe be offered entries?
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2023
For all their pre-eminence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers from Austria and Germany would soon be competing for attention with a kaleidoscope of musical stars from elsewhere, notably Russia, France and the USA.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
