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as in main
coming before all others in importance
the paramount goal is to restore the colonial-era house with complete historical accuracy
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2
as in utmost
of the greatest or highest degree or quantity
maintaining the secrecy of the agreement is of paramount importance
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as in Big Brother
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Recent Examples of paramount
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Rebounding is akin to the timing of pass catching, while the ability to read a defense and hand-eye coordination remain paramount.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
The more complex the AI workload is, the more RAM is required to host and run the AI model, which makes memory capacity of paramount importance.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
For Pittsburghers, whose city had for so long been singularly defined by the production of steel, the idea that industrial competitiveness was not paramount bordered on apostasy.
—Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Nuclear hazards Safety is, of course, of paramount importance when sending nuclear material into space, and people are very often scared of the word 'nuclear'.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
Rebounding is akin to the timing of pass catching, while the ability to read a defense and hand-eye coordination remain paramount.
—ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
The more complex the AI workload is, the more RAM is required to host and run the AI model, which makes memory capacity of paramount importance.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
For Pittsburghers, whose city had for so long been singularly defined by the production of steel, the idea that industrial competitiveness was not paramount bordered on apostasy.
—Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paramount
Adjective
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Demonstrators flocked to protests around the country to march, stand in crowds or line main streets.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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Sirens alerted people to seek shelter in and around Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beer Sheba and areas near the country’s main nuclear research center, which were targeted by Iranian strikes that injured dozens last weekend.—
Farnoush Amiri,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Award-winning writer Jeff Pope will treat this with the utmost care, helping to ensure that the issues that led to Sarah Everard’s murder remain in the public consciousness for years to come, whilst continuing to hold the police to account.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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Bruce will forever be remembered with the utmost regard by our organization for what was accomplished here.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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He has been actively involved in BBBS for more than 15 years, twice serving as a Big Brother in the program.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Mar. 2026
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Other emerging San Francisco bands at that time include Jefferson Airplane (featuring Grace Slick), Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Country Joe and the Fish, and a young Mexican-American named Carlos Santana who kicked away his eponymous band just down the road in 1966.—
Mike Hanlon
March 22,
New Atlas,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Miles is a brilliant basketball player, comparable to a painter or actor with her showmanship on the court and a mind that operates at a different level than most other athletes.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2026
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Polls suggest that most people want owners to pay for their own stadiums, but sports teams are desired and beloved, a source not only of entertainment but also of civic pride.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But, ten years later, his embrace of near-totalitarian control bears the deep imprint of his most personal beliefs about force, weakness, faith, and order.—
Evan Osnos,
The New Yorker,
23 Oct. 2022
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But that would not address the fundamental goal of the protests: to end the totalitarian stranglehold that has subjected the Cubans to an unbearable serfdom.—
Néstor T. Carbonell,
National Review,
16 July 2021
Adjective
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The meeting has been positioned as a critical opportunity for both sides to reset the relationship between the world’s two foremost economic and military powers.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
21 Mar. 2026
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When unfunded entitlements in Social Security, Medicare, and other long-term obligations are factored in, the true fiscal gap approaches $100 trillion — a figure consistent with analysis from Penn Wharton Budget Model director Kent Smetters, one of America’s foremost fiscal economists.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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On the hotel's top floor, this is the kind of space that hosts heads of state, celebrities, and executives who require maximum grandeur.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Apr. 2026
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More than a thousand other records were set for daily maximum temperatures or warm overnight lows.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Biden put this sentiment into action by working with Netanyahu despite serious moral and political failures in Gaza, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on NATO expansion, and with Gulf potentates on the region’s security architecture.—
James Jeffrey,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Nov. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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“Paramount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramount. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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