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Example (musician)

Example (musician): Elliot John Gleave, born 1982 in Hammersmith, London; English rapper, singer and producer whose stage name comes from his initials E.G. Known for the UK number-one album Playing in the Shadows (2011) and singles "Changed the Way You Kiss Me" and "Stay Awake".

Exandria Unlimited

Exandria Unlimited (EXU) is Critical Role's anthology of limited D&D actual-play mini-series set in the world of Exandria, begun June 24, 2021, with Game Masters Aabria Iyengar and Brennan Lee Mulligan across Prime, Kymal, Calamity, Downfall, and Divergence.

Exanthem

Exanthem: a widespread skin rash accompanying systemic illness, usually viral; counterpart of enanthem. Includes the numbered childhood exanthems, with roseola infantum (HHV-6, sixth disease) as the classic example.

Exaone (model family)

EXAONE is a family of large language models from LG AI Research, spanning bilingual English-Korean, reasoning, Mixture-of-Experts, and vision-language models released from 2024 to 2026.

Exascale computing

Exascale computing, done by exascale computers, is supercomputing at one quintillion (10^18) floating-point operations per second, a thousandfold step beyond petascale, first achieved by the United States' Frontier machine in 2022.

Exascale Computing Project

The Exascale Computing Project was a $1.8 billion US Department of Energy program, running 2016 to 2024, that readied software and applications for the nation's first exascale supercomputers.

Exascale Power Co

Exascale Power Co was a Portland, Oregon startup whose CEO, John Fitzpatrick, proposed building ExaFlop data centers in Oklahoma and in 2014 exchanging shares for Intel's stock.

Exasperation Inlet

Exasperation Inlet is a large ice-filled inlet, 16 miles wide, on the Oscar II Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, between Foyn Point and Cape Disappointment; named by FIDS in 1947-1949 after disturbed shelf ice hampered sledging.

Exatecan

Exatecan (DX-8951f), Daiichi Pharmaceutical's water-soluble hexacyclic camptothecin analog topoisomerase I inhibitor; potent but myelotoxic, discontinued after phase III pancreatic cancer failure, now used as an ADC payload (deruxtecan).

Excalibur

Excalibur, or Caledfwlch, is King Arthur's legendary sword, associated with British sovereignty. It has two origin stories: being drawn from a stone or given by the Lady of the Lake.

Excalibur (automobile)

Excalibur is a West Allis, Wisconsin, neoclassic automobile founded by David and William Stevens in 1964, which produced cars powered by Chevrolet V8s from 1965 until 1997.

Excalibur (comics)

Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero team and comic book series launched in 1988 by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis, uniting X-Men characters Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, and Nightcrawler with Captain Britain and Meggan in a UK-based team, with later volumes in 2001, 2004, and 2019.

Excalibur (film)

Excalibur (1981) is John Boorman's 140-minute Orion Pictures fantasy film adapting Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, starring Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, and Nicol Williamson; shot in Ireland, it won the 1981 Cannes artistic contribution prize.

Excalibur (wrestler)

Excalibur (Marc Letzmann, born 1980) is AEW's lead play-by-play commentator since 2019, a masked former indie wrestler, and co-founder and co-owner of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla with Super Dragon.

Excalibur Hotel & Casino

Excalibur Hotel & Casino, a medieval castle-themed resort at 3850 Las Vegas Blvd South, opened June 19, 1990 at $290 million with 4,032 rooms, then the world's largest hotel; now 3,981 rooms, MGM Resorts' budget Strip property.

Excalibur rifle

The Excalibur rifle is a 5.56×45 mm assault rifle developed in India as an improved version of the INSAS, rejected by the Indian Army in 2016.

Excarnation

Excarnation (defleshing) is the removal of a corpse's flesh and organs before burial, often by exposure to elements and scavengers. Distinguishes passive natural excarnation from tool-assisted defleshing, evidenced by gnawing and cut marks in Neolithic to Iron Age burials, with Parsee sky burial as a modern analogue.

Excavated Remains

Excavated Remains (Pandrethan), ASI centrally protected monument no. 893 in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir; a Buddhist site excavated in 1913 yielding two eighth-century stupas, sculptures, and a possible monastery enclosure, now with no standing remains within an army cantonment.

Excavated Site (Rajasthan 80)

Excavated Site (Nagar), Tonk district, Rajasthan: ASI-protected remains of Karkotanagara, capital of the Malava Republic, occupied 200 BC to AD 400, excavated 1942-43 by Krishna Deva, yielding over 6000 Malava coins.

Excavated Site (Rajasthan 85)

Rairh (Rairh-Newai), Tonk district, Rajasthan: early historical commercial and metallurgical site on the Dhil river, excavated 1938-40 by Daya Ram Sahni after a hoard of 326 silver punch-marked coins; Malava Janapadasa seal, abundant iron slag, occupied c. 3rd century B.C. to 2nd century A.D.

Excavation

Excavation is a large 1950 abstract painting by Willem de Kooning, made in oil and enamel and held by the Art Institute of Chicago since 1952.

Excavation of the Tongji Canal and Yongji Canal

The Yongji Canal, dug in 608 by over a million conscripted laborers, formed the northern trunk of the Sui Grand Canal, running to present-day Beijing.

Excavator

An excavator, also called a trackhoe or hydraulic excavator, is a construction machine for earthmoving, using engine-driven hydraulics to move its boom, arm, and bucket.

Excel Entertainment

Excel Entertainment, founded 1999 by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar in Mumbai, produced Dil Chahta Hai, Mirzapur, Inside Edge, and Gully Boy; UMG's India unit bought 30% in 2026. Distinct from the Utah-based Excel Entertainment Group.

EXCEL trial (NCT01205776)

EXCEL (NCT01205776), Evaluation of XIENCE Versus CABG for Effectiveness of Left Main Revascularization: 1,905-patient randomized trial showing everolimus-eluting stent PCI noninferior to bypass surgery at 3 years for low/intermediate SYNTAX left main disease, later controversial over its MI definition.

Excelan

Excelan was a networking company founded in January 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Navindra Jain, and Inder Singh to sell Ethernet boards with TCP/IP, merging into Novell in 1989.

Excelerate Energy

Excelerate Energy is an American LNG infrastructure company in The Woodlands, Texas, founded in 2003 by George B. Kaiser, that pioneered the floating storage and regasification unit.

Excellence in Broadcasting

Excellence in Broadcasting is the second episode of the ninth season of the animated series Family Guy. It aired on October 3, 2010, and features Rush Limbaugh as himself.

Excellency

Excellency (His/Her/Your Excellency) is an honorific style for high officeholders, chiefly ambassadors, governors, governors-general, and presidents; usage varies by country, with the US and UN documents avoiding it.

Excellent Cadaver

Excellent Cadaver is Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi's American production company, founded 2018; credits include Causeway, No Hard Feelings, Bread & Roses, and Zurawski v Texas. Distinct from the 1999 HBO film Excellent Cadavers.