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excellency

[ek-suh-luhn-see] / ˈɛk sə lən si /








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"It's just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, your excellency, that you can count on us."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025

“The document shows Brazil has fulfilled with excellency all the rigid demands of the bidding process,” Brazilian soccer confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues said.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

"I send greetings of good wishes to your excellency and the People of China," the Pope said in the telegram addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2023

“I am begging and knocking at your kind heart that your excellency will grant executive clemency to her by sparing her life and saving her from execution,” Pacquiao said in a statement then.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2015

I'm sure his excellency cannot know what's passing!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

All the excellencies and some heads of state and David Beckham turned up, and fireworks shot up outside the stadium.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

These excellencies are small moments tucked into a baggy novel that struggles to find its focus.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

Pope’s solution was to flag the excellencies with a comma in the margin—or, if they were particularly “shining” examples, with a star—whereas “excessively bad” passages were “degraded to the bottom of the page.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015

But Ben Jonson is to be admired for many excellencies; and can be taxed with fewer failings than any English poet.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden


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