exceptional
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Dylan Seward doesn’t pitch for Norco High, though he has the exceptional arm strength of a closer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
In an exceptional level of productivity, Sheridan received sole writing credit on almost every episode of “Yellowstone,” plus its two prequels “1883” and “1923.”
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Judge Simon Mills told her: "You showed exceptional courage during the incident and afterwards."
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Adjusted pretax profit—a metric which strips out exceptional and other one-off items—was flat at 483 million pounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
A society, almost necessarily, begins every success story with the chapter that most advantages itself, and in America, these precipitating chapters are almost always rendered as the singular action of exceptional individuals.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vocabulary lists containing exceptional
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