foremost

Example Sentences

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“Mayor’s races are first and foremost about what people see outside of their front doors, when they walk their kids to school, when they drive to work,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Vasily Kashin, director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, last month published a widely discussed piece in Russia’s foremost foreign-policy journal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

"First and foremost, we want her to know - and in years to come to see that we've told the world how brilliant she is and how utterly in awe we are of her."

From BBC • May 22, 2026

It’s not trivializing this summit or missing the point, I would argue, to understand it as first and foremost a semiotic spectacle, conducted through language, symbols and signifiers.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

I try to make my own look more feverish and put the invasion of Farbranch first and foremost.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness