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somebody/something par excellence

someone or something par excellence is the best or most extreme example of its type China is the destination par excellence for the young and trendy these days.

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To this class, all that is AWFUL is bad, in fact it is THE evil par excellence. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world! 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context Penetrating through a portal by no means lofty into the precincts of the House which is THE House, PAR EXCELLENCE in the minds of many millions of men, he was met at last by the volatile and revolutionary Toodles. The Secret Agent by Conrad, Joseph View in context			pally palm palm off palsy-walsy pan pan across to pan for pan out pan over pancake pander to pandora panic panic at panic by panic stations pant pant for pant for air pant out paper paper over paper over the cracks paper trail par par excellence par for the course parade parade by parade in front of parade out paradise parcel parcel out parcel up pardon pardon for pardon me Pardon me for breathing! Pardon me for living! Pardon my French Pardon my French! pare pare down pare off park park it Parkinson's law parlay into parley with parrot			PAQOC PAQOL PAQP PAQPM PAQPP PAQS PAQSM PAQT Paque Paquelin's cautery Paquelin's thermocautery Paquet PAQUID Paquin technique par par par par par par par Par Asset Swap Par Avion Par Avion (Lost) Par bond Par Bonds Par Cilveka Tiesibam Vienota Latvija Par delictum Par delictum Par Domain Protein 1 par excellence Par Fabian Lagerkvist Pär Fabian Lagerkvist Par file par for the course par for the course par for the course par for the course par for the course par for the course par for the course Par Force Hunting Par in parem imperium non habet Par Intérim Pär Lagerkvist PAR lamp PAR lamp PAR lamp PAR lamp PAR lamp par of exchange par of exchange par of exchange par of exchange par of exchange Par Terre de Rire par value par value par value par value Par Value Modification Act

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