above all

Example Sentences

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And above all, within what changes in people’s status?

From Science Daily • Jul. 7, 2026

Europeans have long shunned air conditioning, viewing it as noisy, a blight on their architectural heritage and, above all, unnecessary as long as the summers were mild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

"And this desire to move is not just physical mobility," it is also "a kind of drive toward economic mobility and above all social mobility," he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

She said of tertulias, the literary debates that took over an evening in a home or tavern, “they certainly ate, but above all, they drank and debated passionately.”

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026

He spoke of the perils of changing, above all when the wizard transforms his own shape and thus is liable to be caught in his own spell.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin