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She studied under an eminent scientist who had won multiple international awards.eminent = respected and well-known
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Despite her eminent status in the art world, she remained humble and approachable.
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She is an eminent scholar.eminent = respected
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an eminent peak†
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A century after Franklin's death, the eminent explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson pointed out that the English explorer had never taken the trouble to learn the survival skills practiced by the Indians and the Eskimos, (source)eminent = admired
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Sister of deceased industrialist Richard Griffen and sister-in law of the eminent novelist Laura Chase, Mrs. Prior served on the board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra during its formative years, and more recently on the Volunteer Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Cancer Society. (source)
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My supervisor, I learned, was the eminent Professor Jonathan Steinberg, a former vice-master of a Cambridge college, who was much celebrated for his writings on the Holocaust. (source)eminent = respected and famous or important
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They were surely older than her, but they behaved as if she were a visiting eminence.† (source)
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We are eminently practical in these matters. (source)eminently = perfectly
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The purpling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light.† (source)
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Silence and thoughtfulness succeeded the gayety and conversation that had prevailed during the commencement of the ride, as clouds began to gather about the heavens, apparently collecting from every quarter, in quick motion, without the agency of a breath of air, While riding over one of the cleared eminencies that occurred in their route, the watchful eye of Judge Temple pointed out to his daughter the approach of a tempest.† (source)
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She was a thoughtful, well-read young woman, with opinions on a variety of topics such as the responsibility that came with Britain's military power, the nature of commerce and industry under a monarchy, how to care for the poor and neglected, the sensationalist tendencies of the Fleet Street papers, and the convolutions of the legal system as exposed by the eminent author Charles Dickens. (source)eminent = admired
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He sent his sons ahead of him shouting and waving ceremonially preserved animal parts to announce his eminence.† (source)
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This always pleased the eminently practical friend. (source)eminently = with high standing
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This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.† (source)
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What eminent sociologists! (source)eminent = respected and famous or important
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