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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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“But far beyond his on-air excellence, Dan was a better person who welcomed teammates with a smile, a joke, or a word of encouragement, sometimes all three in the same sentence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

"It's an example of how we are rebuilding our core competencies and developing centers of excellence in technical functions instead of continuing to outsource expertise."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

While the American Girl books aren’t known for literary excellence, they were a significant part of Ms. Rowland’s ambitious educational and social mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom...

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Each nicely complements the excellences of a distinctive, gifted movie.

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

For the alarm clock, in spite of its numerous excellences, is as inappropriate in the country as rouge on a milkmaid.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer


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