pre-eminent

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While his friends were among the era’s pre-eminent leading men, Duvall had significant roles himself, but became best known as a character actor in supportive yet unforgettable performances.

From The Wall Street Journal

So why has Germany, the pre-eminent economic power in Europe, decided it needs to leverage its relatively conservative balance sheet?

From MarketWatch

For decades after the end of the Cold War, the World Economic Forum served as the pre-eminent annual gathering of global business and political elites.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gabor Boritt, one of America’s pre-eminent scholars of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, lived in Gettysburg, Pa., for 43 years, and often leapt at the opportunity to give tours of the famous battlefield near his home.

From The Wall Street Journal

America was already the world’s pre-eminent destination for higher education before international student enrollment skyrocketed in the late 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal