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Noun
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The mania for ancient Greece and Rome is in ample display among the current descendants of the Nazis, the alt-right more than happy to cosplay their fantasy of classical masculinity and racial exceptionality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026 -
And just as Shakespeare relentlessly intensified Lear’s individuality, so did Jobs make each gadget more itself, eschewing generic compromise to magnify exceptionality.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Nov. 2025
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Beyond his onstage excellence, Grady runs our props department with remarkable effectiveness and decisiveness.—
Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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In 2014, Jocelyn Peters was recognized for excellence in the classroom.—
Marcelena Spencer,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Artists like Daniel Day-Lewis, Katharine Hepburn, Edith Head, and Alan Menken showed such greatness that the Academy couldn't help but keep awarding them Oscars.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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The worship of greatness leads, at best, to disillusionment and, at worst, to the insanity unleashed by the Wagnerian Hitler.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Taleblu underscored how the importance of the Strait of Hormuz has only escalated since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s because of the Iranian regime’s asymmetric military and maritime strategies, including fast-attack water craft, drones, and mines.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Mar. 2026
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Niccol also reflects on lessons from his time at Chipotle, the importance of building teams that tell the truth, how CEOs make decisions under pressure, and why technologies like AI should enhance — not replace — human connection.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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At least the quality of cabin materials—the complex leather stitching, the suppleness of the hide, the tasteful integration of carbon-fiber trim—lends the cabin a feeling of specialness that mitigates some of the tech frustrations.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
25 Feb. 2026
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Since most of us were never taught basic food literacy, there is a gap in knowledge on how to select, prepare, and store ingredients as well as how to think in patterns instead of perfection.—
Michelle Beadle Holder,
SELF,
16 Mar. 2026
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Add a cherry to the center of each pineapple ring for party perfection.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2026
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