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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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He put in a drive of clinical excellence and, with help from a safety car, chased down and caught Russell in the final laps to take a win that will go down in folklore.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The recognition reflects its excellence in cancer research and patient care.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

While the American Girl books aren’t known for literary excellence, they were a significant part of Ms. Rowland’s ambitious educational and social mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The International Monetary Fund has a reputation for visual excellence, and the chart the global agency used to accompany its latest world economic outlook is quite striking.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Finally there were the revolted elements of his own character—his strange desire for purity and honour and spiritual excellence.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

It is a film of excellences, never more so than in the performances by Robert De Niro and a remarkable supporting cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The days after VE Day were perfect for a tragic English opera with an English setting, and its musical excellences were supplemented by a sense of its national significance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2013

Man with a Bull-Tongue Robert Plow, a collection of 703 sonnetesque verses, sings only homespun heroes, vaunts the excellences of Kentucky farmlife, mourns the mortality of Poet Stuart's love affairs and friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

What saves it is that no one cares about anything but the astonishing excellences of Miss Laurette Taylor as the infinitely pathetic mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

On his part, Fletcher was profoundly impressed with the countess's manifold excellences, and wrote to Charles Wesley that he had "passed three hours with a modern prodigy—a humble and pious countess."

From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald


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