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distinction, dominance, noteworthiness, paramountcy, preeminence, preponderance, preponderancy, prepotency, prestigiousness, primacy, superiority, supremacy, transcendence
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In his department at Penn, colleagues and students who saw past the presumptuous veneer that overlaid his interactions with them came away with the impression that there was something unearned about his eminence. — Benjamin Moser, Harper's magazine, "Regarding the Pen of Others," 19 Aug. 2019 This mirrored the tactics of the 1976 campaign, during which Democratic eminence Averell Harriman conveyed to the Soviet foreign ministry that Carter was anxious to negotiate and would be more agreeable to deal with than then-President Gerald Ford. — Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, "Democrats Are the True Election Meddlers," 15 Aug. 2019 Struggling for a foothold Costa Coffee and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, among other franchises, tried to find a foothold in the market, but never grew large enough to threaten CCD’s’s pre-eminence. — Girish Shahane, Quartz India, "Why Café Coffee Day’s immense popularity didn’t translate into big profits," 1 Aug. 2019 Certainly the first year of Mr Salvini’s pre-eminence has seen nothing that suggests that the all-populist government has any interesting plans for doing anything about Italy’s chronically low growth. — The Economist, "Will Matteo Salvini wreck the euro?," 11 July 2019 Get our daily newsletter Germany’s critics hold its pre-eminence responsible for all manner of evils. — The Economist, "Wurst among equals," 11 July 2019 But De Shields, a theater eminence both on and off-Broadway, incarnated in his slick style and bluesy sound the spirit of Mitchell’s bewitching score. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "Tony Awards: A critic celebrates Broadway's unabashed idealism," 9 June 2019 For example, in the human cortex, about 20 percent of the neurons — the ones called interneurons, which have inhibitory effects — migrate there from a center deeper down in the brain called the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE). — Quanta Magazine, "Mini-Brains Go Modular," 9 Aug. 2017 Since that time, Scholze, now 28, has risen to eminence in the broader mathematics community. — Quanta Magazine, "The Oracle of Arithmetic," 28 June 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'eminence.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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