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preeminently

adverb as in conspicuously

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It is about show people, and is preeminently for those who know about show-world people.

Congress met did not have voting representatives in that body; from this, we infer the preeminently high value accorded to irony.

One cannot go for hours without hearing about the preeminently important “rehabilitation.”

“He was preeminently the white man’s president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men,” Douglass said, according to the speech stored at the Library of Congress.

Although the 16th president led the charge to end slavery, he defended racist views commonly held by whites in his era; Douglass called him “preeminently the white man’s president.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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