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[greyt-nis] / ˈgreɪt nɪs /




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For the past two decades, their entire careers have played out in parallel, their greatness most easily understood in comparison to each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Maybe with “Cars” safely in the rearview mirror, and me having just exhausted my one bad pun per story with this sentence, Pixar can return to consistent greatness.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Seeing things as they are means understanding both their failures and successes, “their greatness and their misery.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Knowing better than their elders, they get the vote not just for what they promise but for what they already do with greatness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

He, Petty Officer Haldon Lac, was having a moment of greatness, and he wanted everything to be perfect.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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