as in chief
highest in rank or authority
the supereminent authority in the field of Shakespearean scholarship
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Spurs are still reeling and trying to find their feet after a dizzying amount of change at executive level over the last 12 months, which includes the departures of executive chairman Daniel Levy and chief football officer Scott Munn, with the Lewis family reasserting control of daily operations.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026 -
Disney said Walden has been promoted to a new role — president and chief creative officer — also effective March 18.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2026
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Live and Let Die also notably broke the color barrier, with Bond’s relationship with a Black woman, Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry), being among the foremost mainstream films to feature an interracial romance.—
Sezin Devi Koehler,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Jan. 2026
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Even now the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
27 Jan. 2026
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Trump's top diplomat said America was safer and more secure as a result and that the administration would work with interim authorities to stabilize the South American country.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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At many top companies, the odds of a student getting an internship are lower than getting into an Ivy League college.—
Brandon Busteed,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Year after year Samsung had an increasingly greater, ever-more commanding presence at CES.—
Jan Wagner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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Uganda’s longtime President Yoweri Museveni took a commanding lead in early election results as reports of deadly violence emerged following Thursday’s vote.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has grown into a powerful force within the country’s theocracy, answering only to its supreme leader and overseeing its ballistic missile arsenal and launching attacks overseas.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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This team will put a supreme emphasis on the trenches.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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The obvious first step is to gather as much light as possible.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Feb. 2026
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Back in 2019, Gab Waller would never have expected that her first client as a personal shopper would be the English model and actor Rosie Huntington-Whitely.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The new study found that in Utah, lead exposure peaked between 1960 and 1964 at 120 times modern rates; previous research has found enormous falls in Europe.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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Rasheed Owens, the lead curator for the installation, spent the last four and a half weeks working on the bedroom.—
Cam'ron Hardy,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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His side recovered quickly from the departures of last season’s two leading goalscorers, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa, and now sit comfortably eighth on 33 points, with no pressing need for winter reinforcements.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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Gemini is now Google’s leading commercial AI product and brand.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Supereminent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supereminent. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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