rank
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Woman grandmaster is the highest woman only title a female player can attain and the rank is held for life.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
As the memory crunch deepened, its rank rose to sixth in last year’s fourth quarter, then third over the first half of this year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Roughly a third of L.A. voters rank “moving homeless people indoors” and “crime and public safety” as top priorities, respectively; just slightly less say “fixing streets, sidewalks, streetlights and other city infrastructure” is essential.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Golden Corral lets its franchisees know where they rank in the overall system as to traffic and cost as a percentage of sales to keep them on track with their economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Like there was a dark cloud of rank, revolting air around me that no one wanted to penetrate for fear of excruciating pain or agonizing injury.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
PARIS—For more than a decade Marine Le Pen has sought to distance her party from its antisemitic past, elevating her fresh-faced protégé Jordan Bardella to the highest ranks of the National Rally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Le Pen said she had "total confidence" in Bardella, 31, who is tipped to become prime minister if she wins the presidency after he made a meteoric rise through party ranks over the last decade.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
He progressed through the ranks playing for Bousports Academy in the town of Thiadiaye before joining Amitie Football Club in the city of Thies.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
His team’s 24-18 win over host Crenshaw on Friday night ranks as one of the best wins in school history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
She brandished her spear, and forked lightning slashed through the monsters’ ranks; but as the hellhounds fell, more took their place.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out here one learns to appreciate the ranker more, and the commissioned man less.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
I've ranked my top 10 below - you can have you say in the comments, too.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
“This represents one of the largest movements in recent survey rounds and moves AI-related risks from a relatively lower ranked concern to the third most cited risk,” the BOE said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
But that was a German side in transition who were, at the time, ranked outside the world's top 10.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
And though Mathis was ruled because of an injury, the Terrapins can turn to five-star edge Zion Elee, the highest ranked recruiting prospect in program history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The Lakers’ defensive rating last season in the NBA was 115.5, ranking them 20th in the league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Mensah is completing 89.9% of his passes through his first three games, leading the country and helping lift Miami to a No. 6 ranking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
News & World Report’s best colleges ranking this year, marking the first time since the 2012 edition that Princeton University hasn’t held the No. 1 spot.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
This season's out-of-possession stats would appear to back it up too, with the Red Devils ranking 16th for distance covered, and 17th for total number of sprints.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Far from being modern breadbaskets, they include areas ranking today as somewhat dry or ecologically degraded: Iraq and Iran, Mexico, the Andes, parts of China, and Africa’s Sahel zone.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney
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