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Recent Examples of paragon 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for paragon
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • It’s not presented as an idea because of how we were raised.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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