top-ranking
adjective
: having the highest rank : most important, powerful, or successful
top-ranking officials/students
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Ultimately, our top-ranking device, the ThermoWorks ThermoPop 2, scored 4.51 out of 5.
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Lizzy Briskin, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Much of the anger at Hezbollah springs from how quickly the group’s leadership appears to have been decimated, with Israel demonstrating its spying prowess time and again by picking off the group’s top-ranking officials.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
That raised the tally of assassinations of senior IRGC officers and personnel and top-ranking members of proxy groups to at least a dozen since last year’s Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
—Golnar Motevalli, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
But in this scenario, Sam receives 35% of the top-ranking votes, Jill receives 32%, Alex receives 22% and Jim receives 11%.
—Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2024
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Lizzy Briskin, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Much of the anger at Hezbollah springs from how quickly the group’s leadership appears to have been decimated, with Israel demonstrating its spying prowess time and again by picking off the group’s top-ranking officials.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
That raised the tally of assassinations of senior IRGC officers and personnel and top-ranking members of proxy groups to at least a dozen since last year’s Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.
—Golnar Motevalli, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
But in this scenario, Sam receives 35% of the top-ranking votes, Jill receives 32%, Alex receives 22% and Jim receives 11%.
—Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Top-ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top-ranking. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.
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