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high status due to widely acknowledged superiority- To remain a preeminent military power, a nation must be a preeminent economic power
- made a fortune as a preeminent computer game designer
- the preeminent cardiologist in New York
- I suspect that AIDS might not be Nature's preeminent display of power.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
- My one regret at this time is that I have not given Him the preeminence in my life while I had the opportunity to work for Him.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Aunt Bertha, Nathan, the rabbi, the cellar, Leo, the beads-all swooped upon him, warred for preeminence in his brain.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- Even Josie Pye attained a certain preeminence as the sharpest-tongued young lady in attendance at Queen's.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- William Morse," a "friend of my dad's" and a "preeminent scholar of deviant sexuality in adolescents," be the junior class's speaker.John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- No, replied the Little Giant, but "he is preeminently a man of the atmosphere that surrounds him."Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- 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.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- Dick started to cite its preeminence in the Revolutionary War, but this quickly led to a staggering amount of new material.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- 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.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- Ford's may be the city's preeminent stage, but business has been extremely slow this week.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- Scrubbing clothes on a washboard until her knuckles bled—that was the preeminent memory of Erma's childhood.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- Grantland Rice, the preeminent sportswriter in the country, accused him of gross overconfidence.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- Lowe-arguably the world's preeminent all-around climber-was hired to be Sandy's personal guide, a job for which he was paid a substantial sum.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Away with those who assert that letters have the preeminence over arms; I will tell them, whosoever they may be, that they know not what they say.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- To these men bred on the desert keen sight was preeminently the chief of gifts.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
- He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- The combination of a certain adroitness with deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and helps him maintain it.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk