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: [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

Example Input: [263, 254, 111, 168, 142, 236, 193, 58, 89, 212, 28, 175, 62, 92, 287, 87, 110, 252, 213, 226], k=11
Example Output: 168

Example Input: [177, 121, 59, 21, 66, 161, 236, 295, 67, 299, 220, 195, 166, 193, 155, 277, 94, 44, 84, 254], k=5
Example Output:
236