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nonpareils

noun

plural of nonpareil
as in models
someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation among the knights of the Round Table, Galahad stood alone as the nonpareil of nobility and selflessness

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Recent Examples of nonpareils These buttery shortbread crisps are bathed in a sweet yogurt icing and topped with colorful nonpareils for a bit of extra crunch. — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 6 Apr. 2026 The Original Glazed doughnut is dipped in blue vanilla icing, sprinkled with Oreo crunch and white nonpareils. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026 The dough is rolled in festive hues of red and green nonpareils before baking, and once baked, a milk chocolate kiss is gently pressed into the warm cookie right out of the oven. — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonpareils
  1. models
  2. ideas
  3. examples
  4. ideals
  5. incarnations
  6. patron saints
  7. pinnacles
Noun
  • Faisal Bashir | Lightrocket | Getty Images BEIJING — China's artificial intelligence models may be enjoying rapid adoption but that isn't yet translating into revenue, raising questions about company valuations.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Higher-dimensional spheres serve as excellent models for things that exist in our daily lives.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of models
Noun
  • Democracy is supposed to be a marketplace of ideas competing for the votes of citizens.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Such questions and contrasting ideas about her body, identity, and trajectory percolate across the record.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of ideas
Noun
  • Freedom, the Second Amendment, the greatest military in the history of the world, gorgeous nature from coast to coast, cheap domestic light beer and other examples that would take me a month to list.
    — David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • But these examples demonstrate what’s both possible and necessary in higher education.
    — Sian Leah Beilock, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of examples
Noun
  • Accurso’s show doesn’t contain political material — unless lessons on friendship can be considered dangerous ideals.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In 2003, Congress supported the goals and ideals of College Savings Month, helping establish September as a time to encourage more families to think about saving before future education costs arrive.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of ideals
Noun
  • No Way Home drew on the superhero's previous film incarnations, bringing them all together as Peter Parker's world collapses.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In previous incarnations, the project has included a luxury hotel, apartments and a Frank Gehry museum.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of incarnations
Noun
  • Columnist Gustavo Arellano says voters should pray extra hard to these patron saints for the 2026 election.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Last year’s Patriots were painted as the patron saints of soft schedules.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of patron saints
Noun
  • Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • The Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Definition of pinnacles

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“Nonpareils.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpareils. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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