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She is viewed as a paragon of integrity.paragon = model of excellence
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A tennis commentator said Agassi went from "punk to paragon."paragon = a model of excellence
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I'm always teasing Margot about being a paragon of virtue these days, and she hates it. (source)paragon = perfect example
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I finally said to him, Tom-good gracious!-why don't you bring this paragon to supper? (source)paragon = person who is a model of excellence
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The honor of serving beside such paragons as Meryn Trant and Boros Blount?† (source)
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"My lord," said Jen Shinnan, "Lieutenant Awn would have you believe everyone in the lower city is loyal and lawabiding, but we know from experience that the Orsians are anything but paragons of virtue.† (source)
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A paragon of scholarship.† (source)
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It was the fame of his electrical experiments and overall inventiveness that made him one of the paragons of the age.† (source)
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city and proud seat Of Lucifer, so by allusion called Of that bright star to Satan paragoned;† (source)
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There was the shopping bag from Paragon Sporting Goods—tag of the pup tent dangling, King Kanopy, $43.99, just as crisp and new-looking as the day I'd bought it eight years before.† (source)
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My wife is one of those paragons—a woman who does not talk very much.† (source)
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Uncle Alfred was a paragon of maleness, too, in that he was rich and he dressed like a lumberjack; that he spent most of the day behind a desk did not influence his appearance.† (source)
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She is the paragon of all paragons of beauty, the reply to all desire, the bliss-bestowing goal of every hero's earthly and unearthly quest.† (source)
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Me—the manly paragon of romance—reduced to a gawky, inexperienced boy!† (source)
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The finest pearls are called virgin pearls, or paragons; they form in isolation within the mollusk's tissue.† (source)
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Originally conceived as a bright boy more cursed with money than blessed with it, a boy who wanted more than anything to compile a good record so he could go to a good university because he had earned admission and not because his father had pulled strings, he had become to Jack a kind of simpering Goody Two-shoes, a postulant before the altar of knowledge rather than a sincere acolyte, an outward paragon of Boy Scout virtues, inwardly cynical, filled not with real brilliance (as he had first been conceived) but only with sly animal cunning.† (source)
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