adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first-rate/second-rate/third-rate
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From Doubleday comes a new series of first-rate hardbacks for small children.
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It is directed by James Cameron, though, and so primarily a first-rate action picture.
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Jim said that the store had a first-rate food department and a bank.
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The struggle produced at least two first-rate publications in the field of political literature.
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They were first-rate soldiers and archers, and extraordinary horsemen.
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This is not a first-rate print.