eminence
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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
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
At first just a gray eminence working behind the scenes while Clarence pounded the pavement, he gradually grew in prominence, reaching a fun spy-movie throwback sweet spot last episode.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024
There it stood now, as I stepped back into the shop, still tall and gleaming on its concrete block, but shorn now of eminence.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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