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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
excel .
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I am a very cold person, that's why I excelled is specific jobs in the military.
6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death » E-Mail 2009
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I am a very cold person, that's why I excelled is specific jobs in the military.
6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death 2009
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Nantz, golf's top host, quipped "Rich and famous" as Beem won, and Feherty and McCord again excelled at providing entertaining lines when play lagged.
USATODAY.com - Under pressure, Wadkins pulls performance up to par 2002
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He goes on: "In my opinion, the great living wave of poetry and song in which Li T'ai-po excelled is surpassed in Tu Fu's work, he is shoulder higher than Li Po."
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John came to the dawning of the gospel-day, and therein excelled the foregoing prophets, but he was taken off before the noon of that day, before the rending of the veil, before
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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If you do, you may be tempted to sell a specific asset that tanks, or buy more of one that has excelled - in other words, sell low and buy high.
A forethought on mental accounting Bob Frick 2010
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But God stood by Gideon in his sleep, and told him that mankind were too fond of themselves, and were enemies to such as excelled in virtue.
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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He was also a talented rugby player, with the MoD saying he "excelled" in his role with the British army.
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Dealing with the issue of democracy and good governance, it says the country has "excelled" in promoting the peaceful resolution of disputes in West Africa.
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In addition to the manifestly barbaric practice of home demolitions, the Israelis really 'excelled' in the widespread practice of physical and psychological torture, especially in the first few years of the Occupation.
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