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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
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
Preventing Daniels from taking over Thursday’s game with his legs was paramount for Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and his group.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Such advancements are critical for applying robotics in motor rehabilitation, virtual reality, and assistive technologies, where seamless and natural interaction is paramount.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
Essential safety tips for heavy rain When heavy rain strikes, safety is paramount.
—Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Prevention of re-injury is paramount to avoiding long-term effects.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
Preventing Daniels from taking over Thursday’s game with his legs was paramount for Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and his group.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Such advancements are critical for applying robotics in motor rehabilitation, virtual reality, and assistive technologies, where seamless and natural interaction is paramount.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
Essential safety tips for heavy rain When heavy rain strikes, safety is paramount.
—Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paramount
Adjective
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The character collection leans into more alternate builds for main characters.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 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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Mangione still faces a second-degree murder charge, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, with the potential for parole.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The charge of conspiracy to commit wife fraud in connection with telemarketing carried a maximum sentence of 30 years, while the count of conspiracy to commit money laundering had a maximum sentence of 20 years.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Forbes Business Council is the foremost growth and networking organization for business owners and leaders.—
Anna Forsythe,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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But some of its foremost victims aren’t Israeli Jews.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Paramount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paramount. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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