paragon

Example Sentences

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Once seen as volatile, software came to be viewed by Wall Street as the paragon of stability, because businesses seemed loath to switch products once they became embedded in their workstreams.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her canvases are paragons not just of passion, but of art’s power.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.

From Salon

The “Maiden” is a neck-up likeness of a young woman that stands as a paragon of physical and psychological realism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Can the “paragon of animals,” in Hamlet’s brooding formulation, really amount to nothing more than a “quintessence of dust”?

From Los Angeles Times