imperfect
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"For some scientists, myself included, that reality can be unsettling. But it also creates an opportunity to turn an imperfect situation into a useful experiment."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
“What that tells me is that people are drawn to the imperfect, the car-crash moment,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Wolff is an imperfect source; he’s previously been accused of making up quotes.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
It's all too easy to settle for an imperfect partner because they're a comfortable and familiar presence.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing imperfect
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Imperfect Me"
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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