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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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A permission-based model is a fine way to buy excellence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

An extended period of excellence no England team has come close to.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

At a time when drama has come to depend on celebrity leads and commercial hype, this bounty of understated excellence is heartening.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Burrows won 11 Emmy awards for excellence in television and helmed more than 1,000 episodes of hit programs, working as a director, producer and writer.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

“The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships.

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 Erasmus, Desiderius




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