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
The custom art highlights the connection with Sonic and the core Olympic values of excellence, respect and friendship.
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Giana Levy, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Past experiences explored excellence across diverse disciplines, including haute couture and luxury watches.
—Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Messner Bee Farm Store recently won Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street’s Business of the Year Award in recognition of the store’s excellence in business, community involvement and volunteerism.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
In 2025, Young is steering ACE toward a phase of strategic growth while preserving the company’s boutique model and reputation for excellence.
—Wyles Daniel, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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Giana Levy, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Past experiences explored excellence across diverse disciplines, including haute couture and luxury watches.
—Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
Messner Bee Farm Store recently won Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street’s Business of the Year Award in recognition of the store’s excellence in business, community involvement and volunteerism.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
In 2025, Young is steering ACE toward a phase of strategic growth while preserving the company’s boutique model and reputation for excellence.
—Wyles Daniel, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for excellence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excellence
Noun
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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
Noun
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But an important distinction that also remains murky is input versus output.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
6 Oct. 2025
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The key distinction is that those founders built wealth by focusing on increasing the value of their existing equity stakes, while taking minimal or no compensation, rather than seeking massive equity grants on top of their founder stakes, said Hoffmann.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 2025
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By dispelling the myth of SPS superiority, this study opens the door to more flexible and cost-effective production strategies, accelerating the path toward safer, high-performance solid-state batteries, according to the study.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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But she is best remembered for Keeping Up Appearances and her role as Hyacinth Bucket, a working-class woman with pretensions of social superiority.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Packages with values of $800 or less, which were previously allowed to enter the United States duty-free, are now subject to a range of tariffs and fees.—
Kayla Steinberg,
NBC news,
10 Oct. 2025
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So Spectrum now wants to encourage its customers to take advantage of those subscriptions, which the company says provides more than $125 per month in value, by launching a new Spectrum app store in its mobile app and on its website, which is meant to streamline that process.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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If the Dodgers didn't run the wheel play to perfection, the Phillies easily could have had the tying run 90 feet away with nobody out.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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If their performance against Union Saint-Gilloise did not brush perfection, the result came pretty close.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One major advantage of developing artificial intelligence in China lies in the availability of large, high-quality datasets, particularly coming from hospitals that are often willing to share medical information for research purposes.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Oct. 2025
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Who is looking strongest for these next three races/who has the advantage beyond just points standings?—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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The virtue of independence is the companion of freedom.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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But trends, especially on social media, that fallback on body-shaming stereotypes casting thinness as a virtue haven't disappeared.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2025
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Rarely does a 29-page scholarly paper merit the attention of top-level executives, but every business leader should be familiar with a recent study from OpenAI.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Lou Tingle's vast merit badge collection from his days with Troop 228 illustrated just how much more Steiger had to learn about survival, agriculture, craftsmanship and life in general.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Excellence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excellence. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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