greatness
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the quality or state of being important, notable, or distinguished.
The goal is to inspire students to achieve greatness by taking risks, working hard, and pushing their limits.
The town is considered an important historical landmark, and is known primarily for its architectural greatness and venerable history.
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the quality or state of being powerful or intense.
Those who are deemed incurable by reason of the greatness of their crimes are banished and never allowed to return.
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the quality or state of being large in size, stature, number, etc..
The ancient stone walls, towering close to 200 feet high, impress with their greatness.
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His use of Toni Nadal—whose coaching philosophy consisted of greatness though suffering—may not be a way of shifting blame from Mr. Nadal for a career’s worth of reckless endangerment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
There are the standards Salah helped to set that emanated through the club in his and Liverpool's quest for greatness.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
That loss to Russia's Egor Mekhontsev 16 years and eight months ago, before Usyk married his wife Yekatarina and started a family, was pivotal on his path to greatness.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
For all of his historic greatness, Trout has appeared in just three postseason games—a first-round sweep at the hands of the Kansas City Royals in 2014.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
At. first, intoxicated by the glory of his return, by his remarkable victories, he had peeped into the abyss of greatness.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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