excellence
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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
There’s no doubt that Damien safety Gavin Williams, a USC commit, will be the standard for excellence this coming season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
People who have worked with Vahdat say that as a boss, he demands excellence and has a quiet competitive streak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Or is Juneteenth a celebration of the strength and excellence that both grew out of the great evil that slavery represented and in spite of it, an evil that still afflicts the nation in 2026?
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
She demanded excellence from every kid who sat on her piano bench.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
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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
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There must have been some peculiar excellences or adaptation to the Roman taste, through which, in spite of these defects, the popularity of the poem was sustained far into the times of the Empire.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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