pre-eminent
杰出的,突出的,杰出,优秀的
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- : eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
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He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
At that time, pre -9/11, the links were more subtle and had to be hunted down.
While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.
At his year-end, pre-Hawaii press conference, we caught a rare glimpse of peak Obama.
Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.
The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.
Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.
William Hewson died; an eminent English anatomist, and medical author.
Gottfried Achenwall, an eminent German lecturer on statistics, history and the laws of nature, died at Gttingen.
John Pickering, an eminent American philologist, died at Boston, aged 60.