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paragon

[par-uh-gon, -guhn] / ˈpær əˌgɒn, -gən /


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Marvell Technology’s custom chips and connectivity offerings have made it a major beneficiary of the data-center build-out — so much so that one analyst is touting the company as a paragon of “accelerating multiengine growth.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Historically, the country club has not been a paragon of diversity, but that’s changing.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.

From Salon Nov. 4, 2025

And Lord knows I’m unmeasured in other areas day-to-day, too, so it’s not like I’m some paragon of containment, but yeah, just the revenge thing, there’s a lot of schoolyard stuff going on.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

And the teacher was not only an intellectual paragon and a social leader, but also the matrimonial catch of the countryside.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Her canvases are paragons not just of passion, but of art’s power.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

None are paragons of morality and very few care about more than their own bottom lines.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2024

And he pointed to Sweden and Finland, once paragons of pacifism and neutrality but now members of Nato.

From BBC Mar. 29, 2024

While his movies are decidedly not paragons of virtue, occasionally they’ve spurred social change at home.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2023

The early data-processing machines weren’t paragons of reliability.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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