as in head and shoulders
by a considerable margin
that Mexican restaurant is far and away the best in the area
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Recent Examples of far and away
Haddad’s script, exploring the New York literary scene through the eyes of a struggling writer being pressured to have a baby by her successful novelist husband, got far and away the most mentions of any script this year with 48.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
The once beleaguered sector is far and away the top performer in the fourth quarter and is closing in on industrials for fourth place this year.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
This is the sport far and away more than any other sport on a college campus.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
The United States was, at that point, far and away the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and, in negotiations leading up to the summit, it had widely been seen as dragging its feet.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
The once beleaguered sector is far and away the top performer in the fourth quarter and is closing in on industrials for fourth place this year.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
This is the sport far and away more than any other sport on a college campus.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
The United States was, at that point, far and away the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and, in negotiations leading up to the summit, it had widely been seen as dragging its feet.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for far and away
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Squeeze your abs, and lift your head and shoulders off the ground.—
Health Editorial Team,
Health,
20 Dec. 2025
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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
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Tankaneo Double-Breasted Cropped Trench My number-one petite fashion hack is to buy cropped styles that’ll be full-length on my shorter frame, and this trench definitely delivers.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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That's definitely a skeleton crew, as the current nominal crew size for the ISS is seven.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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Stolz is the undeniable star of American speedskating, a gold medal favorite whom NBC will undoubtedly highlight often next month in Milan.—
Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2026
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Some parents carefully vetted and chose thoughtful names to add to the birth certificate, while others undoubtedly may have selected them on a whim or as a result of losing a bet.—
Cooper Worth,
Des Moines Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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