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caliber

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variants: or calibre

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degree of excellence
  • musicians of the highest caliber perform at that concert hall

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The first known use of caliber was in 1588

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“Caliber.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caliber. Accessed 11 December 2019.

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