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

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 scheduled to be honored alongside the “Saturday Night Live” eminence Lorne Michaels.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

There were rocks and sand drifts and a distant eminence, as natural and unselfconscious as any landscape on Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan