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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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Recent Examples of paramount
Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Draft assets were flipped to acquire Adam Thielen because early production is paramount.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Fallon’s journey from delving into a space that requires cultural nuance to setting up a fund in a setting where values and stewardship are paramount revealed how adaptable her approach could be.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Promoting well-being and health and a commitment to sustainability were paramount in evaluating each project, ADI said in a statement.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Noun
How the Dolphins grow from such an awful performance will be paramount.
—Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Draft assets were flipped to acquire Adam Thielen because early production is paramount.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Fallon’s journey from delving into a space that requires cultural nuance to setting up a fund in a setting where values and stewardship are paramount revealed how adaptable her approach could be.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Promoting well-being and health and a commitment to sustainability were paramount in evaluating each project, ADI said in a statement.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paramount
Adjective
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The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which has organized dozens of boats to sail to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid, said that one of its main vessels was targeted in a drone strike just after midnight local time on Tuesday while docked near the Tunisian capital.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Tribhuvan International Airport, the country's main international airport, was also shut down due to smoke in the area.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What sets Leviyev apart from her competitors is the fact that each treatment is handled with utmost compassion, precision, and a belief that external beauty is a result of harmony between internal bodily functions.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Nepal's stability, peace and prosperity are of utmost importance.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Who won Head of Household on 'Big Brother'?—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Sep. 2025
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This post contains spoilers for Big Brother 27.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Most of the city's 2 million population has been displaced multiple times in the past 22 months, following Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023, which claimed the lives of about 1,200 people—most of them civilians—and saw 250 people taken hostage.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Another Southern Living-favorite brand, Lodge, has multiple items on sale, including this three-piece set of cast-iron skillets that can replace (most) of your current cookware.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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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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Central to the protocol’s anti-aging effects is its impact on VO2 max, the maximum amount of oxygen your body can utilize during exercise.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even if you hand-water with a hose, watering in the morning not only provides the plant with water in time for the heat of the day, but also allows the maximum amount of time for the leaves to dry before the cool evening temperatures arrive.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Sep. 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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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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In 1951, Husseini’s associates murdered one of his foremost rivals, King Abdullah of Jordan.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Forbes Business Council is the foremost growth and networking organization for business owners and leaders.—
Ryan Hohman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Paramount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramount. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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