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How to use the word Excel in a Sentence?

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I’m not really into math, to be honest — I did it at school, but I didn’t excel in it.

David Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of us put in a lot of effort because we love the company and we love to excel, i think there were a lot of excellent workers at Twitter … we were part of a global movement to tell everyone what’s happening, how it’s affecting you locally, how it’s affecting you nationwide, how it’s affecting you globally. And I think that we all should be compensated fairly for what we’ve done.

Bim Ali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congressman, why is a 'Foreign Influence' task force sending Excel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low-follower accounts in Maryland, Kentucky, and Ohio? Why does the FITF spend so much time reviewing domestic speech?

Matt Taibbi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Through this expansion, we are providing more opportunities for accelerated learning to more families, while providing an equitable, fair process to identify the students who will excel with accelerated learning.

David C. Banks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Democratic party as a whole is just not very good at messaging, they excel when it comes to policy and mastering policy details. (However), selling policy and selling legislative achievements has been something that the modern Democratic party has failed at most of the time.

David Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Amid the pandemic, we know that our students have experienced so much. We can't unlock students' potential unless we also address the needs they bring with them to the classroom each day. As educators, it's our responsibility to ensure that we are helping to provide students with a strong social and emotional foundation so that they also can excel academically.

Miguel Cardona

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our efforts as educators must go beyond literacy, math, history, science, and other core subjects to include helping students to build the social, emotional, and behavioral skills they will need to fully access and participate in learning and make the most of their potential and future opportunities, amid the pandemic, we know that our students have experienced so much. We can't unlock students' potential unless we also address the needs they bring with them to the classroom each day. As educators, it's our responsibility to ensure that we are helping to provide students with a strong social and emotional foundation so that they also can excel academically.

Miguel Cardona

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My childhood was a rollercoaster, and consistency was sometimes lacking, later on, I had two host families who fed me, clothed me and gave me opportunities to excel at rugby, wrestling, chess -- whatever I wanted to do. They took me in as one of their own.

Kory Puderbaugh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She had reached a different level spiritually, which allowed her to excel in all other areas.

Ikey Hedaya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Haley and Hanna are blessed with unique qualities, such as being twin sisters who both excel in Division I basketball, but their stardom off the court goes far beyond that, they are the perfect representation of the modern-day collegiate athlete. They are incredibly hardworking in their sport, they excel academically and they have clearly thought about and defined the path they want to go in life beyond sport.

Frank Pucher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our number one goal is to excel on the court, but off the court, we love to show our creative sides and grow our relationships with the TikTok community, boost keeps us connected so that we can upload and share videos that have a little fun, and hopefully inspire the next generation of women to pursue their basketball dreams.

Hanna Cavinder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I came legally to america to help the people, but here is what I witnessed as a black man. I see a system of entrapment for blacks which has been set in place for years and has been concretized and solidified in such ways with racism as the driving catalyst, and gate keeper. this makes it almost impossible for blacks to excel-so my reggae sings-no chains around my feet, but still I'm not free? can you imagine people building a system which enslaves them? define freedom in america!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

She has been a mainstay and true leader in the administration from even before day one, and I know she will excel as chief of staff.

Melania Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Sometimes I do get a 10-year-old who wants to improve but a lot of times its the parents coming in and wanting little Janey to excel more and I usually wind up pointing out that at this point it really is crucial to just emphasize having fun and enjoying sport, then I usually get fired because they dont like my message, which is de-emphasizing the perfectionism and the achievement and the results.

Marshall Mintz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Yeah, I mean, its awesome... I got put into a great situation, i got to learn behind a great quarterback in Alex Smith. I got to be on a team with a lot of playmakers who helped me excel my game and make me look really good on a daily basis. And, then, to be able to go out there and win football games in front of a passionate fan base is something I get the luxury of doing.

No Kansas City player

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The employee enters into this conversation with a curious, teaming objective and may have formulated some ideas about what aspects of their job they would like to carve out and assign to a peer, if it is presented as an opportunity for the employee to devote more of their time and energy into the aspect of their job that they excel at, it becomes a win/win scenario for their boss.

Katy Hansell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are the best all over the world so whatever we do we excel, there is no difference between one leg and two legs in terms of football because it is the same rules.

Emmanuel Ibeawuchi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When I got sober, I got healthy. I got much better at what I was doing. I started to excel. ... But I felt like I was the only one, i wasn't, but I just didn't know. There was no network of people who were making the choice to be sober.

Scott Crawford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The closest model for what we’re trying to do is human parkour, you have these people that like excel at running over buildings, bouncing off of all these crazy obstacles, using stuff that would otherwise be an obstacle, like a wall, as a feature to help yourself move.

Duncan Haldane

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The deployment of artificial intelligence technology is something that we will excel at because of our focus on user experience.

Apple CEO Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think there are mischaracterizations about him, for me, he’s made Trump Organization a situation where I can really excel at my job and still devote the time necessary for my family.

Jill Martin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Now, they can focus on their studies -- and on being kids, it's the only way you can give a girl child a chance to excel.

Kakenya Ntaiya

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They have to do their AP (advanced placement) work, they have to be in honors classes, and it's not just enough to be in them, but they have to excel, they're just putting so much pressure on themselves to get the absolute best grade possible, and anything under a 90% is failure.

Jaclyn Bealer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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