ideal
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For weeks, aquarium staff have carefully monitored the clutches and did their best to maintain “artificial conditions mimicking ideal natural conditions,” Adams said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
He showed a picture of Tom Cruise starring in the “Top Gun” sequel as an example of the new ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
But trees in pots should be brought indoors "as late as possible - the weekend before Christmas is ideal", advises the RHS.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Deciding on a laundry list of “musts” and working your way back is not ideal.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
It was an ideal evening without a hint of fall in it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
She mailed him a copy, with this inscription: “To Dr. John Truman with deep respect and gratitude for your high ideals and continued faithful service to children. Be blessed always. Diana.”
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
“There are still a lot of people in this country, for all its issues, who believe in these fundamental ideals of creative freedom.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Ind., to French immigrant parents who read to him from Victor Hugo and cherished the ideals of the French Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Japan feels a sense of responsibility to safeguard the ideals of the United Nations as our beacon of hope,” Takaichi said on Tuesday.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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