top-ranking

adjective

: having the highest rank : most important, powerful, or successful

top-ranking officials/students

Examples of top-ranking in a Sentence

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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

Here's why Ranking shows patterns of systemic disparity across the country Insights into the ranking, especially on the opportunity category, showed disparities by race, gender and disability status across the nation, including the top-ranking states, according to U.S. News. —Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024

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

Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and top-ranking military leaders from the Air Force and Space Force shared their chilling warning to a House committee on Wednesday. —Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 19 Apr. 2024

Throughout the conflict, the U.S. has repeatedly deployed top-ranking envoys to Israel in order to persuade Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hardline government to take measures to protect civilians in Gaza. —Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024

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

Britain’s defense secretary, Grant Shapps, and the top-ranking officer in the Royal Navy were both aboard the Vanguard for the test on Jan. 30. —Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024

Immigration policy became his specialization during his tenure in Congress, and McConnell last year selected him to represent the GOP in negotiations as the top-ranking Republican on the Homeland Security panel’s Government Operations and Border Management Subcommittee. —USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024