excel

The first deaf player to excel in the major leagues was Billy “Dummy” Hoy, an outfielder who debuted for the Washington Nationals in 1888.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

You sense that Sage Elsesser would excel in any endeavor he set out to master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

But because quantum computers can spot certain mathematical patterns, they excel at factoring very large numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Our students excel because we treat them differently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Our professors knew us, had high expectations for us, and wanted us to excel because they knew what lay ahead of us professionally.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Hungary and Zandvoort have long-duration corners, where the McLaren excels.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Regardless of whether Edwin Díaz ever excels again in his closer role, I wonder if anyone else feels like I do about the trumpets and light show hoopla announcing his entrance from the bullpen?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

But he also excels at making others feel embarrassed, even the shameless ones.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

But where the PetPhone genuinely excels is location tracking.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

This is one area Marv excels and delights in.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Despite her self-deprecation, this soulful but savvy genius from Appalachia excelled with grace and class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Khan was voted in by millions of Pakistanis who grew up watching him play cricket, where he excelled as an all-rounder and led the nation to a World Cup victory in 1992.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Although Dorothy Parker tried her hand at plays and had a successful writing career in Hollywood—her screenplays included 1937’s “A Star is Born”—she excelled in briefer forms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

In both tone and structure, it harks back to the kind of theatrical properties that May and Lotta excelled in during the first half of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Barnett excelled, attending Northwestern University and opening his own law office right there in Chicago when he was just twenty years old.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

But there have been a couple of European teams excelling beyond expectations.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

There was nothing wrong with the Madison, N.J., public school Ankur Jain’s 11-year-old son attended: Arjan was happy and excelling academically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Having played at two of the past three major tournaments, he knows excelling at a club like United can propel anyone into the international limelight.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

“Oh, good. I wasn’t really excelling so far today....”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein