- a variation of preeminent.
pre-eminent
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But once this battle settles out with someone being pre-eminent, that will flip.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Palantir is quickly becoming the pre-eminent AI application deployment platform among both government and commercial customers,” wrote analyst Param Singh.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Assessing the validity of the market’s pre-eminent data point — nonfarm payrolls — Savouri comments, ‘You may as well throw darts at a board.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
And even though his home country doesn’t have a long history of producing the world’s pre-eminent chess minds, there has never been a better time to be a competitive chess player from Uzbekistan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
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