excellence
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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
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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
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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
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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
Vocabulary lists containing excellence
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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