as in extremely
to a great degree
an applicant who is eminently qualified for the job
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Recent Examples of eminently
Milan is an eminently walkable city, and from here, most major sights, restaurants, and museums fall within a 20-minute radius.
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Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2026
In Manchester’s lively, eminently walkable city center, household names are also heading back to headline at the iconic AO Arena after its recent $60-plus million facelift.
—Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
The model was shockingly good at mimicking Studio Ghibli’s organic, eminently human aesthetic; the trick went viral, and the internet was flooded with Ghibli slop consisting of random images frictionlessly turned into anime.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
When young, a ginkgo’s bark is alluringly smooth; with age, it is eminently furrowed.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
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Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2026
In Manchester’s lively, eminently walkable city center, household names are also heading back to headline at the iconic AO Arena after its recent $60-plus million facelift.
—Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
The model was shockingly good at mimicking Studio Ghibli’s organic, eminently human aesthetic; the trick went viral, and the internet was flooded with Ghibli slop consisting of random images frictionlessly turned into anime.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
When young, a ginkgo’s bark is alluringly smooth; with age, it is eminently furrowed.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 6 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eminently
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Today any surface that has a coating, any device that uses stacks of extremely thin films — television screens, cell phone screens and the microchips inside — can be traced back to Katharine, repeatedly dipping a metal plate in a trough of water.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2026
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Wlazlo is extremely driven and results-oriented, Tessaro said.—
Brian Womack,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Tel Aviv, Israel — Undermining this moment of relief for many repressed Iranians is that killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a perilously simple fix to a very complex problem.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Innova 5610 is very capable and has decent price.—
Hartford Courant,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2026
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Vector control districts in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties have confirmed a significant increase in mosquito activity, which is highly unusual for this time of the year.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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His aspirations, after a highly successful season, could be among the highest in the NFL.—
Joseph Hoyt,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement The stakes were incredibly high as both parties confronted questions about identity, Trumpism, Texas’ soul, and, yes, electability.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, the simple enough ad campaign — which sees Kidman saunter in from the rain to walk up and down the aisles of an empty theater, reciting some incredibly memorable dialogue — went out into the world and made its mark.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Mar. 2026
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But all of this rapturous gazing made up a terribly small fraction of the experience of being a parent.—
Daniel Smith,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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But the arguments that AI will take over tasks and that will allow people to be more fully human is terribly mistaken and overtly hubristic.—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Feb. 2026
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The Legislature and Newsom acted when the low reading skills of California’s kids, as determined by nationwide testing, became too obvious to ignore.—
Dan Walters,
Oc Register,
26 Feb. 2026
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Marlana McElvaine’s family thinks so, too.—
Elise Hammond,
CNN Money,
26 Feb. 2026
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And damned if Love isn’t willing to talk, sometimes candidly and other times in maddeningly vague terms, about all the hell she’s gone through to get to right now.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026
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Jeff looks at things very straightforwardly and is damned fearless, right?—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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No team in the NBA has played more road games than the Heat so far this season.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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More than 20 states currently have agreements with the agency permitting them to do so; Landry, the Louisiana Secretary of State, highlighted that SAVE had been used in her state’s ongoing investigation.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Eminently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eminently. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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