(intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
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My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
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“ […] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”
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1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:
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It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
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2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC[1]: