Sample Sentences for
preeminent
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    She made a fortune as a preeminent computer game designer.
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    My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scattershot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzsche, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards, the latter a deeply troubled writer and psychiatrist who, before putting an end to his life with a cyanide capsule in 1958, had been one of the preeminent British rock climbers of the day.  (source)
    preeminent = outstanding
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    Scrubbing clothes on a washboard until her knuckles bled—that was the preeminent memory of Erma's childhood.  (source)
    preeminent = above all others
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    Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries.  (source)
    preeminent = surpassing others
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    It was to be a true partnership, though for obvious reasons Rousseau would retain preeminence over any aspects of the operation that touched French soil.†  (source)
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    ...the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place. I and my year--not "my generation" for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase--I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that.  (source)
    preeminently = in a manner that surpasses others
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    Rémy's association with Sir Leigh Teabing—the preeminent Grail historian on earth—was going to bring Rémy everything he had ever dreamed of in life.  (source)
    preeminent = most respected
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    Even Josie Pye attained a certain preeminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen's.†  (source)
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    He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.†  (source)
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    He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence that could do honour to the game; and the round table was altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly silence of the other.  (source)
    preeminent = surpassing others
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    We had come to a place where a twenty-year-old boy roared out his own divinity, and the Bible was put to the sword and the torch to illustrate the preeminence of discipline.†  (source)
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    One stop brought us into the family sitting-room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here 'the house' preeminently.†  (source)
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    I suspect that AIDS might not be Nature's preeminent display of power.†  (source)
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