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That’s why everyone from teammates to security guards at the team’s training center use superlatives like humble, special, gracious, down to earth — and, yes, nice — when describing Son.

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The British embassy in Washington may not currently have an ambassador, but it is still in possession of superlatives.

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Highlights included the Vienna Symphony's superlative performance of Bruckner's Symphony No 9, and star conductor Klaus Mäkelä, who delivered an astonishingly emotional version of Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the Netherlands' Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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Just a few years earlier, bosses and colleagues praised Marc as a superlative manager.

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“Baldwin: A Love Story” is superlative, and it should become the new gold standard for Baldwin studies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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