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premier
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premier as in:  premier architect

She is the premier architect in Saint Louis.
premier = most highly respected
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  • Then I'm afraid you should have bought a Premier Area badge.  (source)
    Premier = best
  • That, I had come to realize, was the premier sign of masculinity and maturity, a settled conviction, born of experience, that these rituals would and should be catered to.  (source)
    premier = best or most important
  • I was covering Wimbledon, the world's premier tennis competition and one of the few events I go to where the crowd never boos and no one is drunk in the parking lot.  (source)
    premier = most highly respected
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  • She and staff attorney Kristen Nelson, a Harvard Law grad who had worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, the nation's premier public defender office, met with Marsha repeatedly.  (source)
    premier = the best or most important
  • She gazed up at the gleaming piece of art—a three-dimensional code standing silently at the heart of one of the nation's premier intelligence agencies—and she wondered if it would ever give up its final secret.  (source)
    premier = most highly respected
  • In England, the eligibility date is September 1, and in the football association's premier league at one point in the 1990s, there were 288 players born between September and November and only 136 players born between June and August.  (source)
  • This knowledge moved underground, resurfacing in Renaissance Europe, where, according to most accounts, it was entrusted to an elite group of scientists within the walls of Europe's premier scientific think tank—the Royal Society of London—enigmatically nicknamed the Invisible College.  (source)
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premier as in:  premier of Ontario

In 2013 he became the Premier of the State Council of China.
premier = person in charge
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  • She is the premier of Ontario, Canada.
    premier = head of a government
  • The Count shifted his aim from the Bishop to the portrait of Stalin and shot the former Premier between the eyes.  (source)
  • Do you know anyone who may dislike Chairman Mao or Premier Zhou?  (source)
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  • The Vice-Premier, an old revolutionary and veteran of Mao's Long March, was especially vocal.  (source)
    Premier = head of a government
  • The president has been moved to an undisclosed location and will address the American people later today.... Max stood speechless as the report went on to detail the ministers, presidents, and premiers who were dead or missing.†  (source)
    premiers = title for the heads of a government body in some countries
  • "Oh, did you see the Premier?" exclaimed Anne at once.  (source)
    Premier = head of a government
  • This restaurant is for Premier badge holders only.†  (source)
    Premier = title for the head of a government body in some countries
  • I say I want to be picked up in front of Century 21 Premier Realty on the corner of Truxton and A Street.†  (source)
  • First came the premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell.†  (source)
  • I considered the prestige value of cutting the head off one of your enemy's premier advisors and compared it to the drawbacks of an all-out war.†  (source)
  • It gives them the unique culture of pride that makes the Marines the world's premier warrior force.†  (source)
  • *It came as no surprise to me that during her senior year with the Yak Symphony Orchestra, Candy performed in the European premier of the modern opera Mass by the gifted Leonard Bernstein.†  (source)
  • DEVGRU SEALS are also one of the United States' premier Special Missions Units, capable of executing top-secret missions anywhere in the world.†  (source)
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