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Example sentences for: paragon

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Reno's entire success at Justice rests on her image as an ethical paragon.
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Still, though Thatcher may have been more ambitious than the typical woman, she was a paragon of ideological fidelity compared with Clinton (or Ronald Reagan).
But mightn't a columnist offer sentiments wholly opposed to Anna Q's and seem to his/her readers the paragon of homespun good sense?