1
as in excellency
exceptionally high quality
the annual awards honor excellence in children's literature
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as in distinction
a quality that gives something special worth
the particular excellence of down in clothing and sleeping bags is its lightness
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Recent Examples of excellence
Last week, Kingpins Amsterdam marked a decade of excellence with a celebration that featured a creative fashion show, an engaging happy hour, and a venue buzzing with the denim industry’s foremost experts unveiling their innovative concepts for Spring/Summer 2026.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
If Jordan set the standard for excellence at North Carolina, Matson might have transcended it.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Morehouse College, an institution synonymous with producing leaders and changemakers, will bring its legacy of excellence to the court.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 24 Oct. 2024
The 2024 honorees join more than 500 women recognized for their excellence in Greater Cincinnati since 1968.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
If Jordan set the standard for excellence at North Carolina, Matson might have transcended it.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Morehouse College, an institution synonymous with producing leaders and changemakers, will bring its legacy of excellence to the court.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 24 Oct. 2024
The 2024 honorees join more than 500 women recognized for their excellence in Greater Cincinnati since 1968.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excellence
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Education was considered an individual pursuit marked by moral excellency and only the students who did the best in school would have proceeded to higher education.Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
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Zurich said the Game Changer Award pays tribute to excellency in the film business with a focus on leaders that not only cherish change and forward-thinking approaches in the business, but also stand for the DNA of what cinema has represented since its invention.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
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But soon, the Paul brothers came to represent a new paradigm, in which distinctions between the online world and the offline world became more blurred.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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Nearly 200 Michigan employers have earned the distinction of being named Michigan Top Workplaces for 2024.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2024
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The wholesale engulfing of the myth of white superiority is what makes that kind of violence.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The film explores how the extremists combine violence, threatened or actual, with sophisticated social media campaigns to bring their pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority to the mainstream.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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Discovery took massive, multi-billion dollar hits this summer to write down the value of their cable assets.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Ginori 1735 homeware brand upholds many of the values of timeless Italian beauty and is held near and dear by many global style setters today.Benedetta Rossi, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Second, investment success is less about perfection and more about participation.Wes Moss, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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There is a word for this in Japanese, shibumi, that denotes an aesthetic of austere simplicity and effortless perfection, of doing the most with the least.Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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But that is becoming its strength: the G-20 has a comparative advantage in conferring legitimacy to collective action in an era when many global South states feel that the G-7 is no longer fit for purpose and efforts to reform the UN Security Council’s membership have hit a brick wall.Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
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After the margin shrunk to a few hundred votes on Election Day, Campos now holds a 2,442-vote advantage after the release of the most recent ballot results.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The wall was just low enough to allow Betts to stand on his tippy toes as Capobianco held Betts’ left arm up and over the wall; and Peters – by virtue of dumb luck – did not injure Betts’ right hand, wrist, or arm.Dan Freedman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Inside the arena, local politicians – some famous, some not – warmed up the crowd by extolling the virtues of Trump and the Republicans.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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And in 2024, Democrats paid a hefty price for choosing a candidate based on identity rather than merit.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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While there's probably merit in some of these, my analyses suggest that one of the biggest factors behind Trump's growing support from nonwhite voters may be opposition to immigration.Michael Tesler, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Excellence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excellence. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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