excel

“I couldn’t throw a ball particularly well. I didn’t excel in sports,” he told talk show host Sheila Kuehl during a 1998 appearance on “Get Used to It.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

You sense that Sage Elsesser would excel in any endeavor he set out to master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In her book and in the media, Panettiere has discussed the pressure her mother placed on her to excel as an actress from an early age.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Today’s AI large language models might excel at pushing a pencil around, but proponents say doing real physical work requires large action models, aka world models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“We don’t have the right deck for Old Maid and, unfortunately for you, I excel at Go Fish. I won the Go Fish tournament in fifth grade.”

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

While Taiwan has a strong industrial base and excels at shipbuilding, it lacks the technology to remotely control a large number of uncrewed systems across land, sea and air, Chen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Google said Argon excels at complex tasks in software engineering, legal and financial work and cyber defense, with a leading ability to find and fix critical software flaws.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Hungary and Zandvoort have long-duration corners, where the McLaren excels.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Without that piece of information, adults and kids alike may not understand why a child who excels academically struggles with seemingly simpler tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Despite Haymitch's order to appear mediocre, Peeta excels in hand-to-hand combat, and I sweep the edible plants test without blinking an eye.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Academy life was fueling Stupnikov’s own disenchantment with the army, even as he excelled in sports and schoolwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Braves left-hander Ray Kerr, who excelled as a long reliever down the stretch, served as the opener in their second straight bullpen game and third of the postseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Despite her self-deprecation, this soulful but savvy genius from Appalachia excelled with grace and class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

That is why the manner in which Everton handle Forest's approach for Armstrong, who has already excelled this season, may be a defining moment for TFG and Moyes.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

In these a small page of the King’s household excelled.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Lincoln Riley talks a big game about excelling in the Big Ten, but in losing badly to Oregon and its backup quarterback, USC probably couldn’t win the Pac-12 this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

It is only logical that a natural forward player like Dembele in those situations has been able to thrive instead, excelling against Senegal before scoring a first-half hat-trick against Norway from that right-wing position.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

He wasn’t exactly excelling in the classroom, and his disenchantment with school was beginning to wear on him.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore