Chief
Chief adjective - Highest in rank or authority.
Usage example: the chief administrator will be retiring soon
Nearby Word: chiefly
Less
Less adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Both words in one sentence
- In the Gaunt's Ghosts series, regimental chief medic Dorden gives himself a full-spectrum examination more or less to guilt their chief priest Zweil into taking the same tests.
Source: Unexpected Positive - In the first episode of Sharpe, a Spanish partisan chief sets fire to a document using a strange item which looks like a barrel-less pistol.
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Also, the chief engineer actually reverse-engineers the Odin in order to produce the Thor, a slightly smaller, less powerful, but mass-produceable version.
Source: Vehicular Turnabout
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