How to Use top-ranking in a Sentence

top-ranking

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  • Roughly a 55-mile drive to the southeast, Greensboro was home to two top-ranking brunch spots.
    Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2024
  • By 2022, the number of San Gabriel Valley places in the top-ranking Asian neighborhoods had tripled.
    Aida Ylanan, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • In the auto industry, some of the top-ranking titans include Michigan's Roger Penske, 86, with a net worth of $3.2 billion.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The nation’s top-ranking main street was in Howell, Michigan, a roughly 55-mile drive northwest from Detroit.
    Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The Art Directors Guild has elected a new slate of executive board officers, and for the first time in the union’s history, the top-ranking four are all women.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Despite the decline, Bud Light continues to outrank Modelo in volume sales and remains the top-ranking beer brand based on dollar sales year-to-date.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • Hamas has confirmed the deaths of some of its middle- and top-ranking commanders in recent assaults, but denied Israeli claims that other top officers had been killed.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Any candidate who wins at least 50% of votes in the first round will be elected president, otherwise the two top-ranking candidates will face off in a second round a week later.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 28 June 2024
  • The mini chainsaw in question—the Greenworks Cordless Mini Chainsaw—is our top-ranking pick amongst mini chainsaws.
    Micki Wagner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
  • His name was found on a list published by The Austin American-Statesmen newspaper showing the names of the 32 candidates competing for the city's top-ranking role in the police department.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 25 June 2024
  • Their efforts and spending have gained some headway within the legislature and among top-ranking Texas officials.
    Doyle Rader, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Fortune’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Millennials list finds that top-ranking companies have one trait in common: a focus on fun.
    Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • The top-ranking 100 students, no matter their gender, were admitted to the engineering program.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 2022
  • Many of the top-ranking members of the Orioles’ baseball operations are entering at least their fourth season with the organization.
    Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Its Tuesday ruling furthered the international community’s efforts to bring justice against top-ranking Russians for Moscow’s war in Ukraine, which crossed the two-year mark last month.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • High-level strategy and major decisions instead come from top-ranking members of the Central Military Commission, which is chaired by Xi.
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Now, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate health committee is investigating those systems, my colleague John Wilkerson reports.
    Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Raskin, 60, a former constitutional law professor with a national profile, is in his fourth term and is the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which investigates government misconduct.
    Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
  • Musk, worth $189 billion according to our latest estimates, fired nearly every top-ranking executive at Twitter following his takeover.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Our top-ranking sources require a valid prescription from a licensed healthcare provider for all Viagra orders, ensuring the medication is provided only when clinically indicated.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Some features of Vision includes cross-consumption analysis, providing insights on user behavior across multiple VoD platforms, as well as the identification of top-ranking titles by production studio.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 July 2024

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