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• v  distinguish oneself
  She excelled in math

• Endowed by genetics with standard equipment, they excel at pursuits that tend to favor more formidable types.
• Liu wasn't the only Asian to excel in a sport in which the region's athletes were expected to be outclassed.
• Tzipi's strength to endure, indeed to excel, in what were difficult, often heartbreaking, conditions was a testament to her character.

• stand out
• surpass

News & Articles

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• Excel by 5 eyes next generation
  HERNANDO — With an eye toward improving the lives of the next generation, Hernando's Excel by 5 program, a purely Mississippi initiative, is conducting a "community needs assessment" to determine what tools children aged birth through five years-old need to succeed in life.
  June 13, 2013 - DeSoto Times-Tribune
• Excel Latin America Bond Fund II Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
  Excel Latin America Bond Fund II Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option
  June 12, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Excel Maritime To Get Investments To Reduce Debt
  Excel Maritime To Get Investments To Reduce Debt
  June 11, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Venus Williams in The Associated Press
  I have a full life and I enjoy my life,said Williams, who turned 30 in June. "I enjoy my tennis and I enjoy my pursuits off the court. I aim to excel in all of them."
• Patrick Ewing in KSTP.com
  We both are warriors. We both want to excel. We both wanted to dominate, and when you play against the best you want to perform at your bestEwing said. "So we both definitely looked at each other as the best."
• Nicholas Negroponte in BusinessWeek
  In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint,Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview....