PAR EXCELLENCE Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

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ˈpär-ˌek-sə-ˈläns

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as in excellent

of the very best kind sophisticated cuisine that is obviously the work of a chef par excellence

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Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe. —

Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024 Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made, and if so, who gets to do the making? —

Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024 The private event was an industry schmooze par excellence, something like if Jay Gatsby decided to throw an unofficial SXSW showcase, and the tunes, like everything else, were top-shelf. —

Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024 Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) encapsulates—par excellence—the rise of the Anatolians in the country. —

Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for par excellence

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