paragon
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Marvell Technology’s custom chips and connectivity offerings have made it a major beneficiary of the data-center build-out — so much so that one analyst is touting the company as a paragon of “accelerating multiengine growth.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
According to his 1409 biography, Boucicaut was a paragon of knighthood and an athlete who followed a punishing physical training regime, capable of vaulting fully armed onto his horse’s back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
It’s worth noting that Weiss herself does not appear to be a paragon of newsroom professionalism.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Brigid herself was a paragon of gentleness, teaching the new girls all that Lyddie and Diana had taught her, never raising her voice in irritation or complaint.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
In 2026, our paragons of masculinity are brooding, burly—and smooth as dolphins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
None are paragons of morality and very few care about more than their own bottom lines.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024
And he pointed to Sweden and Finland, once paragons of pacifism and neutrality but now members of Nato.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024
They were paragons of the community that forged them, examples of what Latinos could do if only we could get political power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
The early data-processing machines weren’t paragons of reliability.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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