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beyond comparison

Idioms  
  1. Also,. Too superior to be compared, unrivaled, as in This view of the mountains is beyond comparison, or That bakery is without comparison. The first term, more common today than the much older variants, was first recorded in 1871. Without comparison goes back to 1340, and without compare to 1621.


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Like ambrosia of the heavens, these sweets are delicious beyond comparison — the culinary Holy Grail.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020

The work has taken him around the world, but the Super Bowl is beyond comparison, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

At 34, Bream is in demand throughout Europe and America as the undisputed successor to the grand master of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia, and as a lutanist already beyond comparison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not until Homer's Dressing for the Carnival, 1877 -- beyond comparison the most moving and solidly imagined painting in the show -- were the subtlety, sympathy and fullness of Copley's rendering repeated.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis