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head and shoulders

adverb

: beyond comparison : by far
head and shoulders above the competition

Examples of head and shoulders in a Sentence

a performance that was head and shoulders above all the others in the talent competition
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The TPUs from Alphabet -owned Google are getting renewed attention since last week's release of Gemini 3, which is head and shoulders above other artificial intelligence models and was trained on custom chips co-designed with Broadcom . Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025 OpenAI’s latest valuation puts its head and shoulders above category peers Anthropic ($183 billion), Perplexity ($20 billion), and Mistral ($14 billion). Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025 That being said, there is one suggestion that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of them. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025 Each one is different in terms of form (full figure or head and shoulders) and location. Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for head and shoulders

Word History

First Known Use

1642, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of head and shoulders was in 1642

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“Head and shoulders.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/head%20and%20shoulders. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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