eminence
Example Sentences
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Like 7-year-old soccer players all congregating around the ball, Washington eminences want to cluster around the issue de jour, which today is climate.
From Washington Post
Mark Landler traced Charles’s transformation from an awkward, self-doubting young man to as a self-assured, gray-haired eminence.
From New York Times
The Pac-12 fretted about keeping within any framework the eminence of the Rose Bowl.
From Washington Post
Since then, in an extraordinary career spanning more than 75 years, this piano eminence has released dozens more live albums, a catalog sprinkled with gems.
From New York Times
Odinga, the smiling eminence of Kenyan politics and a perennial outsider, would be the first member of the Luo ethnic group to be president.
From New York Times
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