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
  • Many of its monuments were destroyed, and the city shrank in size and preeminence.
    — History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • But this yoke may come with the Kremlin’s new preeminence in the region.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 18 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • A lot about his preeminence at the All England Club in recent years.
    — Howard Fendrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2022
  • But these strengths have faded, and with them, the sense that American preeminence is a fact of nature.
    — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, the company looks to be on a vector to preeminence in global aerospace and defense.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Everyone knew his or her place at home; and abroad, Britain’s preeminence was unchallenged.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2019
  • To other attorneys who ply their trade in these courtrooms, the preeminence of Willis was simply a fact.
    — Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This approach is key to Xi Jinping’s bid for global preeminence.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Some countries are entitled to preeminence, and Russia may be one of these countries.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2025
  • This shall pass, and American preeminence in science will be restored.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 16 June 2026
  • Our sanctions regime uses the dollar’s global preeminence as a weapon against Russia.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The Mongols gave a new preeminence to merchants, and maritime trade flourished as never before.
    — National Geographic, 5 May 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
  • The rise of EVs is one of the biggest potential threats to Hero’s decades-long market preeminence.
    — Megha Bahree, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • James used a goat emoji on Twitter to confirm Johnson’s preeminence.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • Once that became a money machine, his ownership preeminence in the York family was cast in stone.
    — Tim Kawakami, The Athletic, 23 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In the end, Athens, the rising power, was defeated, never again to regain its global preeminence.
    — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 2 June 2018
  • VidCon itself has become a symbol of TikTok’s rise to preeminence in the short-video world.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • The Red Raiders have plenty to improve on before March Madness, but the turnovers may take preeminence.
    — Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Most agree that the United States should try to maintain its preeminence in the region through competitive but peaceful means.
    — Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Smith voted for the budget, but also took issue with the zeroing out of preeminence funding for universities.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • 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
  • Impatient for global preeminence, the CCP has rushed ahead several times and crashed.
    — Perry Link, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Roshanara was elevated when Aurangzeb claimed the throne but had to relinquish her preeminence on her sister’s restoration.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Mar. 2026

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