nonpareil

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More than 120 million Americans are expected to tune in for an annual pop culture nonpareil, which this year features two teams nobody expected to reach the NFL championship decider.

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

Toni’s primary identity was not as an attorney, wife or prankster nonpareil, but as a distance runner.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

The Beardsley exhibit, rich in original drawings, rare posters, holograph letters and much else, draws from the nonpareil collections of Mark Samuels Lasner.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022

In her review of “Afterlives,” the novelist Imbolo Mbue wrote that Gurnah is “a novelist nonpareil, a master of the art form who understands human failings in conflicts both political and intimate.”

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2022

Jesus appears to Saul and the persecutor of Christians nonpareil cries out, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson