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Example sentences for: paragon

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That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon.
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).
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .
Reno's entire success at Justice rests on her image as an ethical paragon.
The issue that bothers me is that, as the supposed paragon of virtue of the Democratic Party, why does Gore apparently go to the very limit of the definition to condone his actions?