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foremost

[fawr-mohst, -muhst, fohr-]

adjective, adverb

first in place, order, rank, etc.: the foremost surgeons.

Origin:
before 1000; fore¹ + -most; replacing Middle English, Old English formest, equivalent to form(a) first, variant of fruma (compare Latin prīmus) + -est -est

Synonyms
primary, prime, chief, principal, paramount.

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He is said to be one of the foremost interpreters of that composer's works.

At the wedding, my new job was not foremost in my mind.

First and foremost it should do scientific research that private enterprise would be unlikely to fund.

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He is said to be one of the foremost interpreters of that composer's works.

At the wedding, my new job was not foremost in my mind.

First and foremost it should do scientific research that private enterprise would be unlikely to fund.

Rabinowitz is among the world's foremost jaguar experts.

Not that he wasn't first and foremost a pragmatist, mind you, despite his aesthetic sense.

First and foremost is the idea of the search for a place to call home, individually and collectively.

Stellar is the foremost provider of advanced data recovery software.

Among the antiquities of a great nation, its tombs always hold a foremost place.

Net-zero-energy building is first and foremost about radical energy-use efficiency.

Tonga's judiciary remains answerable first and foremost to the king, not the elected government.

White rhinos have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other.

The utility of math should be emphasized, first and foremost.

Adminstering prompt and effective first aid to the victim must be first and foremost.

Caveats remain, the foremost being the replication of the work in human tissue.

Foremost among such negative experiences was that of the electric-power industry.

The black economy is first and foremost a sign of government failure.

Foremost among these is unrelenting sensory immersion in the landscape and soundscape of the natural world.

Drug companies are corporations with a profit motive first and foremost.

Not surprisingly the term is applied first and foremost to political enemies.

She started caving as a teenager and has become one of the world's foremost cave cartographers.

Education is the foremost conveyance of knowledge to help rebuff where appropriate and inform where necessary.

There has always been a nice irony in the resistance to outside shareholders of the world's foremost advocate of share ownership.

It is always up to the therapist to be ethical, first and foremost regardless of how therapy is conducted.

First and foremost to be a clean book: straightforward, clearly and linearly narrated, realistic.

Foremost of them all is that there is no value to chase out there worth investing.

Most companies occupied themselves first and foremost with the survival of their employees who were working in the buildings.

He is probably the foremost philosopher of animal rights-you know, in a serious way-who is out there.

For companies, the past year has been first and foremost about short-term survival.

As far as it goes you're right, jelly roll: science, first and foremost is a search for knowledge.

Foremost among these was curbing corruption within the government.

Courses by some of the world's foremost scholars are online, free for the viewing.

One of the world's foremost experts on climate change is warning.

The world's foremost lion expert reveals the brutal, secret world of the king of beasts.

Bushnell sees gaming as a social activity first and foremost.

He sees himself first and foremost as someone attempting to solve the toughest problems of mathematics.

Psychiatrists are first and foremost small businessmen.

First and foremost choose a vantage point where the camera can be still without moving for a given amount of time.

In all public enterprises, this house has been foremost.

First and foremost is simply using energy wisely-so-called energy efficiency.

First and foremost was the issue of how consumers could procure supplies of a banned product.

But every attorney knows that an opponent's weak legal case is first and foremost an opportunity to get a good settlement.

AT any time of the year, but never more than on a cold winter day, soup is the first and foremost comforting food for me.

First and foremost is the sense of community that many writers.

Rabinowitz is one of the world's foremost protectors of jaguars, tigers, and leopards.

And modern humans are first and foremost killers, needing little reason to see some other species as a threat or as game.

It's a three-year, three-phase initiative that's first and foremost about failure.

Gould's former contributions to medteal literature long since gave him rank among the foremost medical instructors.

Too many academics don't grasp that trade publishing is first and foremost a business.

Haas, award-winning environmentalist and one of the world's foremost artists in aerial photography.

We can only benefit from examining our degree-granting practice, but let's not forget that this is foremost a teaching issue.

Party whose moderate voices have been silenced by ideologues and which has made throwing him out of office its foremost priority.

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In the past few years, that quest has become one of astronomy's foremost goals.

Foremost among these is worry about dramatic falls in currencies.

With its healthy endowments, it has continued to grow and now stands as one of the world's foremost repositories of masterworks.

As a professor of integrative biology, and one of the world's foremost authorities on animal.

Foremost is an unparalleled internationalism-in the student body, the faculty and the curriculum.

Black rhinos boast two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other.

Americans are angry first and foremost with financiers.

First and foremost there are five different channels to choose from and potentially more on the way.

Boards must apply a broader definition of performance first and foremost to the chief executive.

But it is first and foremost the scientist's job to share his or her research with the broader community.

Yet the foremost way in which religion has expressed itself around the world has been more peaceful: the ballot box.

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foremost (ˈfɔːˌməʊst)

—*adj, —adv*
	first in time, place, rank, etc

[Old English formest, from forma first; related to Old Saxon formo first, Old High German fruma advantage]

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Word Origin & History

foremost

O.E. fyrmest "earliest, first, most prominent," from P.Gmc. *formo- (related to O.E. fruma "beginning"), superl. of the root of Eng. fore + additional superl. suffix -est. Cf. O.Fris. formest, Goth. frumists. Altered on the assumption that it is a compound of fore and most.

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