perfect specimen
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As Jackie Higgins explains in her brilliant new book, “Sentient,” these heightened tactile abilities make this little-known creature the perfect specimen to help scientists explore the sense of touch in other animals, including humans.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022
But this time we have a complete, perfect specimen.
From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020
Sade’s “Diamond Life” is a perfect specimen, where studio-strict but somehow still loosely jazzy arrangements float like Arctic icebergs through Sade’s ocean moon tides.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2020
But at this point, even the perfect specimen constitutes a missed opportunity.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2014
I’d spent my life imagining all the ways she’d loved me, what a perfect specimen of a mother she was.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
