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adverb

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The private event was an industry schmooze par excellence, something like if Jay Gatsby decided to throw an unofficial SXSW showcase, and the tunes, like everything else, were top-shelf. Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024 Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) encapsulates—par excellence—the rise of the Anatolians in the country. Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024 Brazil, India and Nigeria look on as Britain and France, former colonial powers par excellence, remain as two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023 Through Khaled’s oddly paralyzed exile, Matar offers a beautifully panoptic portrait of London as the city of literary exile and emigration par excellence, a place where the Arab intelligentsia came in the seventies and eighties and after. James Wood, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for par excellence 

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“Par excellence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/par%20excellence. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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