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She made a fortune as a preeminent computer game designer.

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) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Scrubbing clothes on a washboard until her knuckles bled—that was the preeminent memory of Erma's childhood.  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

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) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Briony had lost her godly power of creation, but it was only at this moment of return that the loss became evident; part of a daydream's enticement was the illusion that she was helpless before its logic: forced by international rivalry to compete at the highest level among the world's finest and to accept the challenges that came with preeminence in her field—her field of nettle slashing—driven to push beyond her limits to assuage the roaring crowd, and to be the best, and, most importantly, unique.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

It was preeminently the smell of the human body after it had been used to the limit, such a smell as has meaning and poignance for any athlete, just as it has for any lover.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

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) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

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) Daniel Silva, The Black Widow, 2016

He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.†  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

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) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

I have felt a disposition to quarrel with him several times, but have restrained myself, and only observed mildly that merit, not titles gave a man preeminence in our country, that I did not doubt it was a mortifying circumstance to the British nobility to find themselves so often conquered by mechanics and mere husbandmen—but that we esteemed it our glory to draw characters not only into the field, but into the senate, and believed no one would deny but what they had shone in both.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

To him, the spirit lodged within Billy, and looking out from his welkin eyes as from windows, that ineffability it was which made the dimple in his dyed cheek, suppled his joints, and dancing in his yellow curls made him preeminently the Handsome Sailor.†  (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

Or preeminent, which was the same to her.†  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018