foremost authority

collocation in English

meaningsofforemostandauthority

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foremost
adjective
uk
/ˈfɔː.məʊst/us
/ˈfɔːr.moʊst/
most important or ...
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authority
noun
uk
/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us
/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition offoremostandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Baxter is aforemostauthorityon the subject.
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Schena is considered theforemostauthorityon micorarray technology.
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He was recognized as aforemostauthorityon late 19th-century art.
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He is also the world'sforemostauthorityon diseases of the glomerulus, having published more than one hundred academic papers on the subject.
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The treatise was widely acclaimed as theforemostauthorityon the topic and was later enlarged in 1938.
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Kaplan was recognized as the worldsforemostauthorityon the laws of duplicate and rubber bridge.
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Beach served as the creative force behind the brand until 2005, and has been referred to as the world'sforemostauthorityon water art and design.
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Written by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book gives a definitive account of gesture and its study.
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Hurst was also notable as theforemostauthorityon medieval pottery.
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These gentlemen are two of the foremost authorities on such matters.
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Stockport metropolitan borough council is one of the foremost authorities on waste disposal and work with waste.
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Exeter is probably regarded as one of the foremost authorities in the country in making provision for the discharge of those in institutional care.
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Keeton was a prolific writer and one of the foremost authorities on the law of torts.
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He devoted himself especially to the study of statistics, and was recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the subject.
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He appears as a keynote speaker at running expos and events, and is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on running.
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Stern was considered in his time as a leading youth psychologist and one of the foremost authorities in differential psychology.
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The next twenty years saw him emerge as one of the foremost authorities in the field of optics.
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He further refined that interest to the study of turtles and eventually became one of the world's foremost authorities on sea turtles.
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He made seminal contributions to the development of the methodology for human applications throughout the 1980s and remains one of the world's foremost authorities in its use.
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Campbell, a professor of comparative literature who later became one of the world's foremost authorities on mythology, was her tutorial advisor.
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