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excellency

[ek-suh-luhn-see] / ˈɛk sə lən si /








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"It's just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, your excellency, that you can count on us."

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

“The document shows Brazil has fulfilled with excellency all the rigid demands of the bidding process,” Brazilian soccer confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues said.

From Seattle Times May 15, 2024

"I send greetings of good wishes to your excellency and the People of China," the Pope said in the telegram addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

From Reuters Sep. 1, 2023

“I am begging and knocking at your kind heart that your excellency will grant executive clemency to her by sparing her life and saving her from execution,” Pacquiao said in a statement then.

From Washington Times Jul. 10, 2015

This encroachment upon the assembly’s privileges gave rise to a great deal of ill feeling, and many acrimonious messages passed between his excellency and the members of that body.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

"Prince Joachim's descendants will thus have to be addressed as excellencies in the future."

From BBC Oct. 3, 2022

“In yours, you could, and should, witness a wonderful recovery. That desperate hope — ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies — is why the world is looking to you and why you are here.”

From Washington Post Nov. 1, 2021

These excellencies are small moments tucked into a baggy novel that struggles to find its focus.

From New York Times Sep. 28, 2020

Pope’s solution was to flag the excellencies with a comma in the margin—or, if they were particularly “shining” examples, with a star—whereas “excessively bad” passages were “degraded to the bottom of the page.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 6, 2015

He had faults of character, but they were all counterbalanced and lost amid the many excellencies that distinguished him.

From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark




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