paragon
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden—This paragon of collectivism is pivoting toward rugged individualism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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
When he eventually signed on for a superhero film, it was, fittingly, alongside Captain America, that upright paragon of virtue — and Redford played the villain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
If Pike was telling the truth, it meant that Hale—a seeming paragon of law and order who had held himself up as Mollie Burkhart’s most staunch protector—had been lying all these years about Anna’s murder.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The Kushners, paragons of their community, were humiliated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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
Here in California, there are places that are firmly lodged in the collective psyche as pristine paragons of natural wonder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Why did he keep this, when all his other specimens were paragons of their species?
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing paragon
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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