imperfect
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“If we’re imperfect in our expectations, we’re cutting off things that could have high ROI and powerfully transform our business.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Across media, Griffin believes Lynch’s strangeness ultimately serves a humane purpose: It returns viewers to the difficult, daunting, delicious business of being an imperfect person in an imperfect world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
But the US official said that Betancourt was a "proven operator", while acknowledging that geopolitics sometimes involved dealing with "imperfect" characters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
"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
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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