excellence
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Mr. Drury’s career has been appropriately defined by modest, steady excellence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
The chances flowed - one thunderbolt from the influential John McGinn, one near-miss from Bowie after excellence from Gannon-Doak, one off a post from McKenna.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
What could possibly be gained by shuttering a national citadel for creative excellence?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The opening words of Antony’s funeral oration in Julius Caesar are, covertly, an ethos appeal par excellence: a positioning of the speaker with relation to the crowd.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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
Among the excellences of Madrid must be counted her museos.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
Vocabulary lists containing excellence
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ance, -ence
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