paragon
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Robert Redford became a bankable leading man in 1969, when “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” about a pair of outlaws on the lam, turned him into a paragon of the movie star.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025
It’s worth noting that Weiss herself does not appear to be a paragon of newsroom professionalism.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025
When he eventually signed on for a superhero film, it was, fittingly, alongside Captain America, that upright paragon of virtue — and Redford played the villain.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
Owned by Gladys Phipps and her brother Ogden Mills, operators of the East’s legendary Wheatley Stable, Hard Tack was a copper-colored paragon of symmetry, grace, and blinding speed.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing paragon
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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