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excellence

[ek-suh-luhns] / ˈɛk sə ləns /


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The Recording Academy announced the new category in June, saying it would recognise "artistic excellence in Asian pop music performances originating from or widely recognized within Asian markets".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

A kitchen can demand excellence without demanding suffering.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

“They have a true operator running the company for the first time in a long time,” although it will be a long road to operational excellence, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Academic excellence has always been central to our admissions process,” the statement said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Right, I know. I mean, just look where academic excellence got you.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

It is more difficult fora man to judge of the excellences of a dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing, one would say, could better inculcate by explicit example the measured and disciplined practice, the ship-shape and organic result which—plus, of course, literary talent—are the elementary excellences of this prevalent form of literary expression.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews




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