first-rate
Example Sentences
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The performances are first-rate; Claire and Pete, for instance, are imbued by Ms. Richards and Mr. Cullen with a distinctly unstable chemistry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Nevertheless, as a storyteller Mr. Man is first-rate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The characters, rendered with contemporary exactness by a first-rate cast, were so recognizable that they made the mysterious events unfolding around them terrifyingly plausible.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
A powerful eminent-domain law allowed the Singaporean government to amass vast property holdings, which it used to build first-rate, owner-occupied public housing.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025
One would not expect someone at Berkeley to ignore a first-rate problem merely because someone at Cal Tech had started first.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
