- a variation of preeminent.
pre-eminent
Example Sentences
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He was, as Bruce Nichols convincingly argues in “The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World,” the pre-eminent public intellectual of his time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The battle between them, and Dodds, to be part of GB's pre-eminent pairing as we move towards the next Winter Olympics will be fascinating.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
More than a dozen readers pointed to the famous hate-a-thon between the Yankees and Red Sox as the pre-eminent rivalry in sports today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But once this battle settles out with someone being pre-eminent, that will flip.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
His medical training had been extensive, consisting of five years of apprenticeship with the pre-eminent doctor in the United States, John Redman.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
