excellence
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An extended period of excellence no England team has come close to.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
There’s no doubt that Damien safety Gavin Williams, a USC commit, will be the standard for excellence this coming season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
People who have worked with Vahdat say that as a boss, he demands excellence and has a quiet competitive streak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Burrows won 11 Emmy awards for excellence in television and helmed more than 1,000 episodes of hit programs, working as a director, producer and writer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Many parents liked what they saw in their children: the discipline, physical fitness, diligence, pursuit of excellence, pride in national heritage, and a sense of purpose.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
Confirmed admirers of French filmmaking will also find it sparkling with the usual Gallic excellences: subtle underplaying, sharp character drawing, loving attention to significant detail, a shrewd understanding of the overtones to complex human relationships.
From Time Magazine Archive
For all its excellences, it would have been a bigger book if Rabbit had been a bigger man.
From Time Magazine Archive
We can neither beg, borrow, nor steal characteristic excellences.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
Vocabulary lists containing excellence
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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