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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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    In my imagination these blinding halos of terror and beauty rung him, or maybe they were the same, as though he were limited somehow by his own unbearable preeminence and in that way given over to a doom in his life.†  (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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