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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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The recognition reflects its excellence in cancer research and patient care.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

To mark PSG's latest display of attacking excellence, we're looking at how the Parisians compare to those clubs who have enjoyed the most dominant eras in European competition.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The International Monetary Fund has a reputation for visual excellence, and the chart the global agency used to accompany its latest world economic outlook is quite striking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Excellence in football and excellence in life is bred when men recognize their opportunities and then pursue them with a passion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

It is a film of excellences, never more so than in the performances by Robert De Niro and a remarkable supporting cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The days after VE Day were perfect for a tragic English opera with an English setting, and its musical excellences were supplemented by a sense of its national significance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013

Yet he also fears, and will presumably fight, any government move which, "on a doctrinaire point of social policy, uproots the individual excellences of these schools."

From Time Magazine Archive

For all its excellences, it would have been a bigger book if Rabbit had been a bigger man.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is waged mainly for “vain titles or childish wrath;” it does not foster, in those responsible for it, any one of the nobler excellences.

From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus


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