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nonpareil

[non-puh-rel] / ˌnɒn pəˈrɛl /
NOUN
model of perfection
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More than 120 million Americans are expected to tune in for an annual pop culture nonpareil, which this year features two teams nobody expected to reach the NFL championship decider.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Thirty years later, he has gone from carefree racer to world-weary Italian icon, famed for building automobiles whose power, speed and, yes, beauty are nonpareil.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Toni’s primary identity was not as an attorney, wife or prankster nonpareil, but as a distance runner.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

In her review of “Afterlives,” the novelist Imbolo Mbue wrote that Gurnah is “a novelist nonpareil, a master of the art form who understands human failings in conflicts both political and intimate.”

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022

Their approaches to physics were divergent: Lawrence was an experimentalist nonpareil, Teller a profoundly intuitive theorist.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik