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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Extremely good
admirable
amazing
amazingly
ask for someone
award-winning
five-star
gold-plated
gourmet
greatness
have no parallelphrase
high-class
par excellence
shining
soar
sock
splendid
splendidly
stellar
stupendously
wonderfully

first-rate | American Dictionary

first-rate
adjective
us/ˈfɜrst ˈreɪt/
extremely good:
a first-rate performance

first-rate | Business English

first-rate
adjective
uk /ˌfɜːstˈreɪt/us
of the highest quality:
The country's universities are first-rate.
We were very impressed with what Glasgow has to offer as a first-rate conference location.

Examples of first-rate

first-rate
So, a first-rate think-piece, which in its first edition was greeted as such by scholars round the world.
For these workers, recruited from the rest of the pottery, were too ingrained in their ways to become first-rate painters and modellers.
Of particular importance is that the authors incorporate research on first-rate middle and high school programs from different institutions throughout the country.
The authors' approach is imaginative and their economic analysis, as expected, is first-rate.
The straightforward title of this first-rate book is slightly misleading on only one account.
Most of the authors who presented experimental work are clearly first-rate experimentalists but many of them are weak on presentation and interpretation.
Only lack of space could and does put an end to my dialogue with this significant and first-rate product of a first-rate scholar.
As teachers, we are gifted with a first-rate text.
Successful women scientists often juggle two sets of professional demands - the demands of running first-rate research programs and the demands of advocating for equality.
In otherwise first-rate studies, an unintentional but real distortion of wartime reality has occurred.
That is, to bring their pupils into as much contact as possible with the first-rate in art, literature, and music, all widely conceived.
First, all have excellent scientific merit and are therefore first-rate resources for teachers and researchers.
This is a first-rate study by a scholar who has successfully demonstrated the global nature of the conflict.
The great amounts of authoritative information and opinions given by first-rate scholars far outweigh the somewhat minor defects pointed out above.
This is a first-rate work that deserves widespread adoption.
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