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excel

[ik-sel] / ɪkˈsɛl /


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The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.

From The Wall Street Journal

In high school, Jackson did well - being elected as class president and excelling in nearly every kind of team sport.

From BBC

“I was never a straight-A student. I was never one that excelled,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I'm probably taking on a dad role. Seeing how much they're excelling, it's just really exciting for me to watch and wonder where it could go."

From BBC

Text-prediction large language models do exactly the task that people with aphasia struggle with, and they really excel at finding the next word in a sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal