paragon
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Other American paragons of virtue who were publicly opposed at the time: William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass.
From Los Angeles Times
Once seen as volatile, software came to be viewed by Wall Street as the paragon of stability, because businesses seemed loath to switch products once they became embedded in their workstreams.
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.
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