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: [241, 16, 229, 221, 230, 250, 220, 289, 267, 42, 244, 252, 247, 177, 206, 14, 35, 209, 120, 281], k=18
Example Output: 35

Example Input: [127, 288, 143, 278, 154, 204, 45, 223, 61, 79, 122, 110, 244, 100, 275, 153, 20, 94, 10, 16], k=16
Example Output: 61

Example Input: [171, 245, 34, 30, 15, 235, 263, 222, 250, 145, 268, 221, 94, 189, 279, 142, 248, 10, 274, 188], k=14
Example Output:
145