In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [169, 212, 237, 280, 68, 89, 134, 49, 129, 88, 223, 142, 217, 121, 23, 294, 18, 64, 231, 100], k=18
Example Output: 49

Example Input: [120, 104, 231, 246, 115, 267, 125, 205, 69, 166, 18, 130, 129, 154, 101, 142, 68, 10, 92, 201], k=17
Example Output: 69

Example Input: [123, 211, 127, 208, 168, 49, 92, 199, 254, 16, 154, 244, 187, 103, 73, 44, 64, 41, 231, 82], k=16
Example Output:
64

