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eminence

[em-uh-nuhns] / ˈɛm ə nəns /




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They included novelist King, astrophysicist Tyson and numerous book and magazine writers of varied eminence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

By 1955, Ms. Newman marvels, “Barney had become an unavoidable eminence after barely having had a career.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

We now live in an era that can be safely summarized as the end of science's peacetime, and perhaps the end of the general eminence of once mighty institutions of higher learning.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025

"We unanimously agreed that Maurice and Maralyn is a non-fiction work that reaches the highest literary eminence," Bryson added.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

He was the ruler of the sea, Zeus’s brother and second only to him in eminence.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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