top-ranking

adjective

: having the highest rank : most important, powerful, or successful
top-ranking officials/students

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Several of the top-ranking companies across all three lists this year also took the top spots last year. Haniya Rae, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 Mickey Guyton has a way of dazzling everyone in her path — including, maybe most of all, her fellow top-ranking musicians. Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025 According to the poll results, the top-ranking worries include the economy (60% worry a great deal), healthcare costs (59%), inflation (56%), federal spending and the budget deficit (53%), and the Social Security system (52%). Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 As of February, staffers from DOGE had pushed top-ranking officials at the Department of Education out of their offices, rearranged the furniture and set up white noise machines to muffle their voices, according to employees at the agency. Lora Kolodny,ari Levy, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for top-ranking

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“Top-ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top-ranking. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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