as in model
someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation
in Arthurian legend, Sir Galahad is depicted as the one knight who is a paragon of virtue
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Over the next four decades, GameDay evolved into a traveling paragon of sports television, barnstorming its way across college campuses each week, with Corso serving as master of ceremonies.
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Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
To support these claims, Unger marshaled his own thought experiments—the cherished arrows in every philosopher’s quiver—beside which the Shallow Pond is a paragon of simplicity.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The brand has been a paragon of innovation, affordability, and female empowerment.
—Dean Debiase, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Obama overcame the critiques; and his presidency, anticlimactically, ended up being thoroughly centrist, very far from a paragon of democratic socialism, let alone socialism.
—Jerel Ezell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
To support these claims, Unger marshaled his own thought experiments—the cherished arrows in every philosopher’s quiver—beside which the Shallow Pond is a paragon of simplicity.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The brand has been a paragon of innovation, affordability, and female empowerment.
—Dean Debiase, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Obama overcame the critiques; and his presidency, anticlimactically, ended up being thoroughly centrist, very far from a paragon of democratic socialism, let alone socialism.
—Jerel Ezell, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paragon
Noun
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Whatever is decided, some kind of change in Madrid’s club model is coming, and has been in preparation for some time.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Beyond medical uses The team also equipped the robot with a tiny camera, enabling it to inspect hard-to-reach spots inside the jet engine model.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Bank of America reiterates Nvidia and Broadcom as buy Bank of America says the stocks remain favorite ideas at the firm.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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It’s not presented as an idea because of how we were raised.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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Sea star wasting disease is a rare example of a fast and coordinated response to a marine epidemic.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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This is also a great time to marvel at other examples of the city’s architecture, like the Catedral de Mallorca, a cathedral towering over the city skyline and the Llotja de Palma, a 15th-century Gothic guildhall that frequently hosts art exhibitions.—
Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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That includes the number of incarnations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with a new version coming from director Guillermo del Toro.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
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Designing The Creature was an intricate process with various stages of its design incarnation on display.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Paragon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paragon. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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