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preeminent

I have no doubt, it will be preeminent in the next 100 years.

He continued to be recognized as preeminent during his years in the field.

"And you're not here to debate the issue with the preeminent authority on the subject."

He was highly regarded by the world's most preeminent leaders.

Most of the media refer to abortion as the preeminent women's right.

Each School is headed by a preeminent scholar in his or her field.

The mall was at one time the preeminent place for shopping in Washington.

The army holds the preeminent place within the armed forces.

He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university.

The central bank plays a preeminent role in the country's banking system.

Birmingham is a working city, a preeminent place of industry, and a home to manufacture.

It is preeminent in science, and its physicists are without peer.

The Modern's status as the preeminent museum of modern art has been long established.

The schools claim to have preeminent sports teams, particularly in football.

She is considered to be "one of the preeminent Broadway photographers."

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Money now rivals, or even exceeds, power as a preeminent goal.

The college boasts an international reputation as one of the preeminent music institutions in the world.

Following Meyer, freedom is viewed as the preeminent political value.

Sometimes such a chief will not even be a local, but a preeminent leader drawn from a distant area.

He is revered as one of the preeminent Buddhist teachers in the world.

Here too the preeminent problem was the everyday one, not the fate that lay before us.

But last week, two of the country's preeminent institutions had cause to rejoice.

As the nation's preeminent composer, Sullivan was the natural choice to write the music.

He was for a time the preeminent portrait painter in Berlin.