top-ranking

adjective

: having the highest rank : most important, powerful, or successful

top-ranking officials/students

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At the time, some top-ranking Democrats called out Bloomberg for his connection to the Republican party. —

Sydney Lake, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024 Ultimately, our top-ranking device, the ThermoWorks ThermoPop 2, scored 4.51 out of 5. —

Lizzy Briskin, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024 Much of the anger at Hezbollah springs from how quickly the group’s leadership appears to have been decimated, with Israel demonstrating its spying prowess time and again by picking off the group’s top-ranking officials. —

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024 That raised the tally of assassinations of senior IRGC officers and personnel and top-ranking members of proxy groups to at least a dozen since last year’s Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. —

Golnar Motevalli, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for top-ranking