highest-ranking
Example Sentences
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Most notably, he fired General Charles Q. Brown, the military’s highest-ranking Black officer.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
Simon Case, the UK's highest-ranking civil servant from 2020 to 2024, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that political upheaval also "costs us money" by driving up borrowing costs.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026
Now President Donald Trump's administration is increasingly weighing in, with Vance, a long-term critic of European migration policies, becoming the highest-ranking US official to comment on the killing.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
In the emailed document, titled by the writer as an “Apology and Explanation,” Allen allegedly wrote that Trump administration officials would be “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest” in terms of how he targeted them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
This meant that I would be the highest-ranking cadet in the entire corps of over seven hundred people.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
