excellence
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The chances flowed - one thunderbolt from the influential John McGinn, one near-miss from Bowie after excellence from Gannon-Doak, one off a post from McKenna.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The ultimate honor is typically reserved for sporting heroes from the host country, often with Olympic excellence on their resume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
A kitchen can demand excellence without demanding suffering.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
“They have a true operator running the company for the first time in a long time,” although it will be a long road to operational excellence, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
For my final round of commencements as First Lady, I spoke at Jackson State University in Mississippi, another historically black school, using the opportunity to talk about striving for excellence.
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
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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That these excellences are unintentional in no way detracts from the power of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And even Sir Robert Peel, with all his excellences, has made sad mistakes on the subject of reform and the corn laws.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
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