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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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 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

Founded in 1948, it was, in many ways, meant to be the paragon of suburban life, with mass-produced houses and cookie-cutter yards.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Then again, Anna and Tom aren’t exactly paragons of honesty either.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

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

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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