standout
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Curry was the playfully crooked Rooster Hannigan, and had a standout scene singing and dancing in a pencil mustache and slicked back hair to “Easy Street,” alongside Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In school, she was also floored by a video of Paul Simon performing the Graceland standout “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” with the South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Josh King: The academy graduate was Fulham's standout performer, creating chances and posing a threat before scoring the first-half equaliser.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
He became a standout receiver for USC and a Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
He signed up for the men’s gymnastics team, where his prodigious upper-body strength made him a standout on the rings, the high bars, and the parallel bars.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
