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Her canvases are paragons not just of passion, but of art’s power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

None are paragons of morality and very few care about more than their own bottom lines.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024

And he pointed to Sweden and Finland, once paragons of pacifism and neutrality but now members of Nato.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024

Here in California, there are places that are firmly lodged in the collective psyche as pristine paragons of natural wonder.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Why did he keep this, when all his other specimens were paragons of their species?

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly