imperfect
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But it’s also imperfect, particularly in a market crowded with everything from exchange-traded funds to high-frequency traders that can be heavy traders without necessarily making a major move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
Polling is an imperfect instrument, and asking voters whether they favor a given candidate or policy doesn’t always tell you why they feel the way they do.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 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
But Alcmaeon’s zest for the impure was not shared by most of his Pythagorean colleagues in later times. an imperfect reflection.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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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