pre-eminent
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He would become a pre-eminent scholar of disasters and spend the rest of his long career illuminating the corrosive, collective traumas left in their wake.
Imai, however, has only doubled down on his desire to forge his own path and conquer MLB’s pre-eminent giant.
The world’s pre-eminent military power must rethink its tried-and-tested tools and tactics even as it girds for one of its most vexing challenges since World War II: potential great-power conflict with China.
The task Ms. Truschke set for herself is audacious, and her book—which she describes as embracing “a little of everything, including cultural, religious, social, literary, economic, and intellectual histories”—must now be regarded as the pre-eminent general history of India.
Soon after, almost by accident, he co-founded the Paris Review, the pre-eminent postwar English-language literary journal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
