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paragon

[par-uh-gon, -guhn] / ˈpær əˌgɒn, -gən /


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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

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

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

Then again, Anna and Tom aren’t exactly paragons of honesty either.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Other American paragons of virtue who were publicly opposed at the time: William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

None are paragons of morality and very few care about more than their own bottom lines.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2024

The early data-processing machines weren’t paragons of reliability.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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