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excel

[ik-sel] / ɪkˈsɛl /


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Cobolli, 24, was the runner-up at last month's French Open and, after becoming a Wimbledon quarter-finalist last year, has showed again he can excel on grass.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

He was petrified by how much had to go right for him to excel in high school, college and then decades of working.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Today’s AI models can excel at single tasks, such as translation or image generation, but they cannot reason like a human.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

“I would say that we have proved that we excel at hosting major events. This will just be reinforced in 2026,” Reed said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 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

But where the PetPhone genuinely excels is location tracking.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2026

Microlensing, which is expected to reveal more than 1,000 worlds, excels at finding planets farther from their stars, including systems that resemble our own solar system.

From Science Daily Jun. 1, 2026

He broke out as a filmmaker with the 2018 film “Sorry to Bother You,” a magical ride about a Black telemarketer who excels by using a “white voice.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

At a school that excels in many different sports, the Wolverines rose to the top.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2026

I’m thinking about what Ainsley said and wondering what a person who excels looks like.

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

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

He says that Lorne is someone who always excelled at deadlines.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

He excelled at chess and won a Ford Foundation scholarship to attend the University of Chicago, where arrived on a Greyhound bus from Knoxville, Tenn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Greenspan excelled at the clarinet and attended George Washington High School.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Odella has achieved Odella has excelled at Odella has been recommended to Odella's outstanding performance in She is gifted we are told.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

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

For context, Harry Kane is a year younger and still excelling in both the Bundesliga and the Champions League.

From BBC Mar. 25, 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

Outstanding achievement was thought to depend on strong early performance, such as excelling in school subjects, sports, or concerts, combined with specific abilities like intelligence, physical coordination, or musical talent.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2025

While Olivia and I were both intellectually capable of handling the college curriculum, of excelling in it even, we remained in key ways emotionally adolescent.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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