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
• Entertaining Jewish preeminence, the chant seemed, ironically, of a piece with an anti-Semitic slur.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Hamas’s relations with Tehran were repaired only a few years before the October 7 attacks, after Hamas’s military leaders in Gaza gained preeminence within the group.
  — Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024