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perfect

[pur-fikt, per-fekt] / ˈpɜr fɪkt, pərˈfɛkt /






Usage

What are other ways to say perfect? The adjective perfect emphasizes completeness, and also high quality and absence of defects or blemishes: a perfect diamond. Complete implies that a certain unit has all its parts or is fully developed or perfected, and may apply to a process or purpose carried to fulfillment: a complete explanation. Intact implies retaining completeness and original condition: a package delivered intact. Entire means whole, having unbroken unity: an entire book. 

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Dodgers hitters are stymied by the Brewers bullpen, which throws five perfect innings in a 7-4 win that gives Milwaukee a 2-0 lead in the NLCS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Rachel Burgess, senior editor of Autocar magazine, thinks it is a strategy that makes perfect sense.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

"We are witnessing a perfect storm that could throw tens if not hundreds of millions of people back into poverty."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Roosevelt used the property to relax, but he also saw it as a perfect place for high-level diplomacy.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

He said that I was the perfect candidate for Sunridge High’s Fine Art and Music program.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

As “Maddie’s Secret” continues, and the titular Maddie falls deeper into the grasp of her titular secret, Early perfects that push and pull.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The avatar perfects the theater, showing up with scripted answers.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

Just as a chef perfects a dish by experimenting with flavors and textures, the researchers used an iterative process, testing variations to find the ideal structure for the ionizable lipid.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

Ingredients may change as it perfects its brew.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

Thus it adds to and perfects Dogmatic Theology, enriching our knowledge of God by way of making explicit the implications of Divine Creation and Providence to His image, man.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan

As a result, he says, "I think readers are coming to value very obviously personal writing, and maybe even writing that's messier, less structurally sound or composed or perfected, than they maybe once would've desired."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

If Silicon Valley has perfected any business model, it’s the one in which it cooks up a new technology and then persuades people they can’t live without it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

After I lost my longtime gig, I decided to launch my own private computer course, based on strategies I’d perfected for decades.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Apple under Cook has perfected a business model that limits the capital it employs to run its business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“The way Romans saw it, they adopted the Greek stuff and perfected it.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

"It's something we spend lots of time and money perfecting," said Sasaki, a fellow voice actor, adding that "we support Tsuda wholeheartedly".

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

She impressed casting directors with a repertoire of characters and accents she’d been perfecting since she was 4 years old.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

He said that in a world focused on technology, where people can become caught up in making videos or perfecting production, writing requires nothing more than a pen and paper.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

In purifying and perfecting their homes’ water, he says, homeowners of the future will demineralize and remineralize what comes out of the tap, and then pump it full of oxygen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

If Lawrence’s attention was still devoted more to perfecting the machine than to exploit its powers, both its performance and its results already were being noticed around the world.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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