How to Use preeminence in a Sentence

preeminence

noun
  • The preeminence of pop in the vinyl format isn’t about to end any time soon.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 May 2022
  • But by this time Helser's preeminence was very much in doubt.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 22 July 2017
  • But this yoke may come with the Kremlin’s new preeminence in the region.
    Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • For months, their preeminence in the state had been assumed.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • A lot about his preeminence at the All England Club in recent years.
    Howard Fendrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2022
  • Many of its monuments were destroyed, and the city shrank in size and preeminence.
    History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The rise of EVs is one of the biggest potential threats to Hero’s decades-long market preeminence.
    Megha Bahree, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The Red Raiders have plenty to improve on before March Madness, but the turnovers may take preeminence.
    Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Their preeminence has been recognized over and over by fans, coaches, players and the people in shiny suits who hand out the awards.
    Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • That now famous move 37 of game two was the death knell of human preeminence in strategy games.
    Will Roper, Wired, 24 Oct. 2020
  • In fact, the company looks to be on a vector to preeminence in global aerospace and defense.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • VidCon itself has become a symbol of TikTok’s rise to preeminence in the short-video world.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • So, too, would the economic preeminence of this famous port at the heart of global trade, eclipsed by booming cities on the Chinese mainland.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
  • But by the mid-2000s, the New York scene was losing its preeminence as rising housing costs locked out young musicians.
    Ned Resnikoff, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The American economy is the largest in the world, and that preeminence allows the United States to exert control over many levers of power.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Milk’s preeminence began to wane a bit in the 1970s as the birthrate declined and nutritionists questioned the amount of fat in American diets.
    jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Every four years, there is a fight from one side of the country to the next as partisans scuffle in a bid for power and political preeminence.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • This approach is key to Xi Jinping’s bid for global preeminence.
    Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Everyone knew his or her place at home; and abroad, Britain’s preeminence was unchallenged.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The average American should care a great deal about the preeminence of our universities in the history of the Nobel prizes.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The Mongols gave a new preeminence to merchants, and maritime trade flourished as never before.
    National Geographic, 5 May 2020
  • In the end, Athens, the rising power, was defeated, never again to regain its global preeminence.
    Clay Chandler, Fortune, 2 June 2018
  • Impatient for global preeminence, the CCP has rushed ahead several times and crashed.
    Perry Link, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2021
  • And make no mistake, the PGA Tour absolutely needs to be defended that savagely right now in order to maintain its preeminence in the sport.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 June 2022
  • Our sanctions regime uses the dollar’s global preeminence as a weapon against Russia.
    Nr Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • For Microsoft, the Surface Headphones represent a chance to reclaim some of its lost preeminence in consumer tech.
    Vlad Savov, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
  • For now, their economic preeminence means Premier League clubs may resist, but that could change very quickly post-Brexit.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • James used a goat emoji on Twitter to confirm Johnson’s preeminence.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • Their preeminence ended, however, with the worst extinction event in world history, one that dwarfs even the extinction of the dinosaurs.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Payton's preeminence as a play-caller combined with Brees' record-setting pedigree and veteran savvy should once again have the Saints in Super Bowl contention.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020

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