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adj. - Approaching or constituting a maximum; Most significant; Of the loftiest and most superior kind.

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  • In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people.
  • THIS is what you call the highest priority of children?
  • The fact is that Barack Obama's been very clear that he will tax what he calls the highest income earners.
  • They are not immovable — they come to us from the outside, and what we call the highest is for ever changing.
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