eminence
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“Nobody plans to run deficits forever,” Baicker said, adding that the investments were aimed at increasing the university’s academic eminence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 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
In that historical context, Ms Murty's critics say that someone of her stature and eminence should be more aware of what she says in public.
From BBC • Jul. 28, 2023
As the play’s protagonist concedes, the pupils of Unjust Discourse are the occupants of all the positions of power and eminence in the city.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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