paragon
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Uniqlo's decision to row back on its sock price hike came as it sought to protect its status as a paragon of affordability portrayed in local media.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Solar panels power the battery-swapping station, although the Huaneng operations are hardly a paragon of green energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 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
Her canvases are paragons not just of passion, but of art’s power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
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
While his movies are decidedly not paragons of virtue, occasionally they’ve spurred social change at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
The early data-processing machines weren’t paragons of reliability.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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