top-ranking
adjective
: having the highest rank : most important, powerful, or successful
top-ranking officials/students
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Other top-ranking issues included health care (16%), education (12%), inflation (11%), and infrastructure (10%).
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2025
Milan, the top-ranking European city, trails Atlanta by more than $100,000 per 10,000 people.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
These are the top-ranking selects.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2025
If not through reform, which has been attempted previously with only limited success, then perhaps through a military coup by disgruntled or even fearful top-ranking officers or former officers unwilling to risk another war like the one that killed their predecessors.
—Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2025
Milan, the top-ranking European city, trails Atlanta by more than $100,000 per 10,000 people.
—Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
These are the top-ranking selects.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2025
If not through reform, which has been attempted previously with only limited success, then perhaps through a military coup by disgruntled or even fearful top-ranking officers or former officers unwilling to risk another war like the one that killed their predecessors.
—Big Think, 25 Nov. 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 15 Dec. 2025.
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