par excellence

adjective
par ex·​cel·​lence | \ ˈpär-ˌek-sə-ˈläⁿs How to pronounce par excellence (audio) \

Definition of par excellence

: being the best of a kind : preeminent a chef par excellence

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Examples of par excellence in a Sentence

sophisticated cuisine that is obviously the work of a chef par excellence

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Sue Gordon was a name Americans were never supposed to know—the exemplar par excellence of the legion of career, nonpartisan officials who devote a lifetime to anonymous government service. Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, "Trump’s Intel Vacancies Put Americans in Danger," 9 Aug. 2019 So there is one more goal for a keeper par excellence. Dom Amore, courant.com, "Dom Amore: UConn prepared Andre Blake to strive for soccer’s highest levels," 29 July 2019 After the French Revolution, Sparta became stigmatized as the favorite city of illiberals, and Athens became the ancient republic par excellence. Nick Burns, The New Republic, "In Defense of Sparta," 7 Aug. 2019 The steady decay of English syntax is a first-world problem par excellence, and tsk-tsking over sloppy grammar amounts to a haughty and rather geriatric form of entertainment. Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, "Semantic Drift," 22 July 2019 One particular line-reading of Nilsson’s sticks with me after all these years, and happily it’s preserved on the 1966 Bayreuth Tristan (my desert island discs par excellence). Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, "Wagner’s Wonder Woman," 8 Sep. 2018 Find a piazza or a park and enjoy a picnic par excellence. Matt Goulding, Condé Nast Traveler, "How to Eat Like an Italian," 13 June 2018 Teutonic knights from East Prussia founded it as Königsberg 763 years ago, and German philosopher par excellence Immanuel Kant spent his whole life there. Ross Kenneth Urken, The New Republic, "Playing Geopolitics With the World Cup," 5 June 2018