preeminent
adjective
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What is noteworthy about the following sentence? "Denali Mountain is a prominent eminence on the Alaskan landscape." You very likely recognized two words that are closely related to preeminent: prominent and eminence. All three words are rooted in the Latin verb stem -minēre, meaning "to stand out." Mount is also a related word: it comes from Latin mont- or mons, meaning "mountain," which shares a common ancestor with -minēre. Mount leads us in turn to paramount, a word closely related in meaning to preeminent.
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Abc News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Claudio Monteverdi, the preeminent European composer of the early 17th century, was largely forgotten within decades of his death, in 1643.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
Orange County’s preeminent Vietnamese politician is the Republican state senator Janet Nguyen, who came to California with her family as a refugee in 1981.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Regardless of how the series is classified doesn’t discredit the fact that three preeminent English soccer voices are focusing their attention, analysis and expertise on the United States.
—Michael Loré, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Preeminent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preeminent. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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preeminent
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