pre-eminent
Example Sentences
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Soon after, almost by accident, he co-founded the Paris Review, the pre-eminent postwar English-language literary journal.
As I closed the book—the distillation of almost 40 years of its author’s engagement with Afghanistan and its pre-eminent players—I realized I had yet read another work that, rather than enhancing our understanding of Afghanistan, demonstrates why we continue to fail to understand it.
Beth Hammack spent three decades at Goldman Sachs, the nation’s pre-eminent investment bank.
From MarketWatch
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Serie A was the world's pre-eminent football league.
From BBC
South Africa's opener and captain Laura Wolvaardt had been the pre-eminent batter in the tournament, not only leading the run-scorer's list, but also slamming a century in the semi-final to knock out England.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
