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: [265, 266, 70, 83, 280, 46, 184, 127, 114, 242, 188, 160, 270, 98, 95, 119, 112, 263, 109, 86], k=15
Example Output: 98

Example Input: [110, 261, 22, 294, 94, 275, 282, 201, 185, 24, 232, 222, 114, 50, 93, 216, 56, 55, 150, 251], k=18
Example Output: 50

Example Input: [102, 296, 258, 44, 199, 174, 216, 299, 188, 147, 255, 28, 241, 21, 32, 243, 276, 128, 57, 142], k=13
Example Output:
142

