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What does preeminent mean?

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  1. Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important. [from 15th c.]
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Seldom has a more acidulous portrait of the city been drawn by one of its preeminent members.
Recipients range from preeminent national museums to small literary magazines that could not survive without subsidies.
The two biggest bugaboos bedeviling these preeminent directors are commercialization and overcrowding.
He was the preeminent actor of the jeans and torn t-shirt generation who sought a total identification with the characters they played.
Many Baptists believe that within the biblical canon, the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are preeminent.
Here he abandoned religion, raised a family, and won a reputation as a respected teacher and preeminent authority on gall wasps.

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