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"This doesn't mean all is perfect," said Admiral Brad Cooper, adding that "service at sea for long periods isn't for everyone".
From BBC β Aug. 18, 2026
His work suggested that a perfect vacuum is not truly empty.
From Science Daily β Aug. 18, 2026
The more perfect the find, the more careful I am to check it.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 17, 2026
The late 1990s were a perfect example of greed.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 17, 2026
At this selfsame moment J.W. came awake and backed out of Lloyd’s lap, which was perfect.
From "The Teacherβs Funeral" by Richard Peck
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 β Jun. 22, 2026
The avatar perfects the theater, showing up with scripted answers.
From MarketWatch β 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 β Nov. 22, 2024
"Stephenson perfects the idea of a railway, from start to finish," said Snow.
From BBC β Feb. 24, 2024
As we have seen, the good is that which perfects a nature, that which is due to a nature as the realization of the end of the latter.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
How AQR perfected tax-loss harvesting to help the rich get richer.
From Slate β Aug. 8, 2026
When Jamie Overton perfected his wide yorker, Brook simply reached across and audaciously sliced it over deep third for six.
From BBC β Aug. 4, 2026
Party Puffs started out selling ice cream and lemonade until Barham perfected his signature hot dog on a stick using his mother’s cornbread recipe.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 22, 2026
We have perfected the military-industrial complex in a way that no other nation in history has.
From Salon β Jul. 4, 2026
The old man claimed he’d discovered the stopball one day down in the Texas League and that he was long gone from baseball when he perfected it.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Hunched over sizzling grills and shrouded in smoke, trainees at the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in southern China roast skewer after skewer of succulent beef tendon, perfecting the skills that could land them a restaurant job.
From Barron's β Jul. 2, 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 β 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 β Jun. 12, 2026
The company’s ability to operate space-based data centers and ramp up rocket launches depends on perfecting critical technology.
From MarketWatch β Jun. 11, 2026
We practiced our looks on house servants, perfecting them in solitary chambers under the scrutiny of Du Barry.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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