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: [28, 92, 72, 299, 153, 66, 261, 160, 218, 130, 235, 262, 10, 51, 17, 141, 14, 277, 247, 223], k=18
Example Output: 17

Example Input: [100, 196, 26, 297, 13, 125, 214, 69, 139, 64, 143, 262, 222, 37, 84, 273, 148, 212, 293, 167], k=9
Example Output: 167

Example Input: [293, 239, 204, 195, 163, 143, 205, 206, 125, 70, 127, 47, 209, 43, 88, 274, 259, 279, 162, 296], k=7
Example Output:
209

