Word to the Wise: Nonpareil
Something that’s “nonpareil” (non-puh-REL) – from the French – has no equal.
Example (as used by Simon Barnes in The [London] Times): “Steve Redgrave won his third gold medal at his third successive Olympic Games and we hymned the man as if he were the greatest athlete we had ever seen: a superman, a nonpareil, a demigod walking the earth.”
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