greatness

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Recent Examples of greatness The tension between established and new art, which seeks to simultaneously acknowledge greatness in the past while overturning its rank deficiencies, is often palpable. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025 Ultimately, the trio wants to see Wayne get back to the drawing board and lock in with a singular producer like Nas did with Hit-Boy to bring that greatness out of him. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 June 2025 The greatness of the military should be honored, regardless of which president is in power or their political party. Nicole Russell, USA Today, 13 June 2025 Thunder coach Mark Daigneault isn’t taking the greatness of the MVP for granted. Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for greatness
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Noun
  • This reality drives the team’s commitment to excellence, with Jordan emphasizing the importance of ensuring every guest leaves on a positive note.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 26 June 2025
  • The series has also won two Annie Awards, for excellence in the field of animation, in 2023 and 2025 in the category of Best Animated Television/Media Production for Preschool Children.
    Debbie Day, EW.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Other thinkers have reflected on the generosity of the shrub and its fruit.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2025
  • Unfortunately, a drunken Ben makes a heinous error in judgment that abruptly extinguishes the generosity of their hosts.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Education was considered an individual pursuit marked by moral excellency and only the students who did the best in school would have proceeded to higher education.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Education was considered an individual pursuit marked by moral excellency and only the students who did the best in school would have proceeded to higher education.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The bill’s magnitude seems to have played a role in the disintegrating relationship between Trump and Elon Musk, who remains the world’s richest man despite seeing his net worth plunge in recent days.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The grand jury was most critical of the four-mile OC Streetcar project and said endeavors of that magnitude need to be better planned and executed to benefit a larger portion of Orange County.
    Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Can the sport maneuver around a host of U.S. traffic — no top-tier American driver, an abundance of NASCAR competition and a European-race television schedule that’s more breakfast-time than primetime — to finally get out of the pack?
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
  • The calculations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which correctly predict the abundances of hydrogen and helium in the Universe, put strict constraints on how much light-emitting matter there can be, and that number simply isn’t large enough to accommodate all these disparate results.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025

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“Greatness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greatness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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