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It is about show people, and is preeminently for those who know about show-world people.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2023

Peace and stability will depend on incorporating into that order other nations with their own claims to indispensability, preeminently China.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2018

“That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is preeminently a place of moral leadership.”

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2018

“The presidency,” said Franklin Roosevelt, “is not merely an administrative office. That is the least of it. It is, preeminently, a place of moral leadership.”

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2016

I and my year—not “my generation” for destiny now cut too finely for that old phrase—I and those of my year were preeminently eligible for that.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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