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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

"To the world, our father was the iconic music legend whose vision, instincts, and relentless pursuit of excellence shaped the soundtrack of countless lives," they said in a statement.

From BBC Jun. 22, 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

It’s a prestigious school that prides itself on music excellence.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.

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

The essential unity of virtue—its negative character as regards all the empirical variety of virtues—is seen in the excellences required by the needs of war.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich




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