paragon
Example Sentences
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Her canvases are paragons not just of passion, but of art’s power.
Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.
From Salon
The “Maiden” is a neck-up likeness of a young woman that stands as a paragon of physical and psychological realism.
Can the “paragon of animals,” in Hamlet’s brooding formulation, really amount to nothing more than a “quintessence of dust”?
From Los Angeles Times
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
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