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preeminent

[pree-em-uh-nuhnt] / priˈɛm ə nənt /


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Spain are - even in the hard-to-quantify world of international football - clearly the preeminent side in the world.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

A team of strategists at Deutsche Bank outlined 10 factors that, according to them, helped hasten the U.S.’s rise to a preeminent global power from a small country at the time of its founding.

From MarketWatch Jun. 28, 2026

The deal brings together “the most valuable live content portfolio in video consumption with the preeminent streaming platform,” Fox Chief Executive Lachlan Murdoch said Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

He’s one of the country’s preeminent AI safety researchers, and a professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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