- present participle of excel.
excelling
Example Sentences
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There was nothing wrong with the Madison, N.J., public school Ankur Jain’s 11-year-old son attended: Arjan was happy and excelling academically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
And Brighton's sustainable model of success has come from hiring coaches who seek to impose themselves on the game through possession, with Roberto de Zerbi and Fabian Hurzeler excelling.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
"Medicine is excelling at a rate it has never done before, AI is taking over as we know, so I'm really hopeful on that front."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The man who had succeeded his entire life, excelling at everything and failing at nothing, was beaten.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
