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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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And while those two provided almost all of the runs, England's excellence in the field was an all-round effort.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

In some ways, the R2’s general excellence is just good timing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 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

That brings us back to Yamamoto, whose combination of consistency and excellence makes him the natural choice to start a big game — opening day, for instance, or an elimination game in the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

My eyes couldn’t get past words like excellence, distinction, gifted, and especially Donovan Curtis.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

You cannot have all excellences combined in one person; let us then cheerfully work together to complete the beautiful whole,—beautiful in its unity,—no less beautiful in its variety.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret




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