Which preposition to use with preeminent

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Venice, through her favorable situation, became preeminent in commerce, while Florence was coming to be the most important industrial centre of Europe.

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His daughter, Thusnelda, was preeminent among the noble maidens of Germany.

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Monge was a man of considerable merit as a geometrician, and, while living, stood preeminent above his contemporaries in the French school of that day.

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And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier Lot, enjoying thee Preeminent by so much odds, while thou Like consort to thy self canst no where find, &c. The remaining part of Eves Speech, in which she gives an Account of her self upon her first Creation, and the manner in which she was brought to Adam, is I think as beautiful a Passage as any in Milton, or perhaps in any other Poet whatsoever.

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Uniting with the most unaffected simplicity the highest degree of personal valor and of intellectual energy, he stands preeminent before the world and for after ages in that band of heroic spirits who upon the ocean and the land formed and sustained during the second war with Great Britain the martial reputation of their country.

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The British sea-power, notwithstanding the first year of the war of 1812, had come out of the great European conflict unshaken and indeed more preeminent than ever.

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