eminence

Example Sentences

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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

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

Even for orchestras of Cleveland’s eminence and civic stature, people simply weren’t showing up.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

Cicero was the great eminence of the Roman age—a lawyer, a politician, and so not only Rome’s greatest theorist of rhetoric but its greatest practitioner.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith