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: [276, 188, 261, 277, 93, 230, 233, 22, 212, 97, 204, 40, 21, 226, 162, 157, 89, 216, 284, 271], k=2
Example Output: 277

Example Input: [109, 71, 25, 182, 65, 202, 184, 161, 272, 286, 299, 156, 194, 150, 129, 230, 266, 283, 297, 252], k=14
Example Output: 156

Example Input: [140, 52, 172, 175, 201, 159, 291, 255, 93, 10, 111, 125, 221, 149, 92, 218, 199, 205, 108, 55], k=19
Example Output:
52