excellence
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“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
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who serves as the Smithsonian Chancellor, hailed his "distinguished service," adding: "Secretary Bunch has pursued excellence in the telling of our nation's story."
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Solos are few and far between, which enables the excellence of Hemphill’s writing to take center stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Nine months in, Lupoi has worked to mold a program that lives by three pillars: relentless effort, ball excellence and power of unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Like many parents, especially those in the Muslim community, my parents demanded academic excellence from their children.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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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
Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends.
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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Her excellences were her own; her faults lie at the door of society.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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