excellence
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The trophies the girls won for excellence at school sit alongside the books on the shelves of the home library he and his wife, a teacher, have proudly put together for them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The movie also does for food something like what “Sideways” did for wine, though it opposes culinary pretense with its depiction of modest, unheralded excellence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A permission-based model is a fine way to buy excellence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
It feels almost absurd to ask about a player who has spent more than two decades redefining footballing excellence.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
But to be confronted with the prejudice so blatantly, there in that temple to intellectual excellence and rational thought, by something so mundane, so ridiculous, so universal as having to go to the bathroom...
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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
We can neither beg, borrow, nor steal characteristic excellences.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
Vocabulary lists containing excellence
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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