excellence
noun
ex·cel·lence
ˈek-s(ə-)lən(t)s 
1
: the quality of being excellent
an award for academic excellence
setting a high standard of excellence
see also black excellence
2
plural excellences
: an excellent or valuable quality : virtue
… I am as admiring as almost everyone else of the film's many excellences …—
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn3
or Excellence
: excellency sense 2
Lord Regent, I do greet your Excellence …—William Shakespeare
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Examples of excellence in a Sentence
The school is known for the excellence of its teachers.
an award for academic excellence
setting a high standard of excellence
Recent Examples on the Web
In addition, 60 Minutes has won 25 Peabody awards for excellence in television programming.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
Read the full Gemini Daily Horoscope Cancer (June 22 - July 22)
Striving for excellence?
—USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
Things don’t always play out predictably: for every Lodi (low-key and exciting at first, but aged into sort of an expensive, touristy nothing) there’s a Gage & Tollner (gimmicky and super-popular in its first year, now settled into a comfortable excellence).
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
Their tale, rooted in Durham—a city alive with history and a vibrant pulse of Black excellence—unfolds like a tapestry woven from the rich threads of New Jersey and North Carolina.
—Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
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Brad Adgate, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
Read the full Gemini Daily Horoscope Cancer (June 22 - July 22)
Striving for excellence?
—USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
Things don’t always play out predictably: for every Lodi (low-key and exciting at first, but aged into sort of an expensive, touristy nothing) there’s a Gage & Tollner (gimmicky and super-popular in its first year, now settled into a comfortable excellence).
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2024
Their tale, rooted in Durham—a city alive with history and a vibrant pulse of Black excellence—unfolds like a tapestry woven from the rich threads of New Jersey and North Carolina.
—Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
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excellence
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ex·cel·lence
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