Exceptional
Exceptional adjective - Being out of the ordinary.
Successful and exceptional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Successful" instead an adjective "Exceptional".
Successful
Successful adjective - Having attained a desired end or state of good fortune.
Exceptional and successful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exceptional" instead an adjective "Successful".
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Of course this is because Moral Guardians tend to be far more successful than people realize and this trope seems exceptional and memorable when it fails.
Source: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - Primate research ran across a case like this: an exceptional individual led his troop on a successful campaign of expanding the troop's territory against all the other troops nearby.
Source: Decapitated Army -
Renaissance Man: As Stephen Lasker wrote, "We may be thankful Ellington selected music as a career, for he was a man of exceptional talent in fields apart from music..." In another universe, he might have been just as successful as a writer, painter, bridge player, or baseball player.
Source: Music / Duke Ellington
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