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Hayden and Savannah had never set foot in Scotland before they decided it was the perfect place to get married last May.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
"At just 50-100 nanometers wide, these particles are the perfect compass needles," said Harrison.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
It makes perfect sense that Emerald Fennell’s debut film, “Promising Young Woman,” is divisive.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s OK to share that you don’t have a perfect life, and that alone will bring people closer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It was so perfect that even I, who had just seen twelve people eating here, could scarcely believe this was anything but an innocent old man dining with his daughters.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
Ever wondered how an actor from Brisbane, Australia, perfects a Northern accent?
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 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
Strangely enough, this seems not to matter at all, for it grows on and perfects its flowers just as though nothing had occurred.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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
And they weren’t trying to maintain an existing aesthetic but to stand out with the best version of perfected artificiality money could buy.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Taylor also revealed how the group perfected their trademark harmonies by singing in a cave on a Cornish beach because they loved the "big sound".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
How AQR perfected tax-loss harvesting to help the rich get richer.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Your fingers have still not perfected the task.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
"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
The road to perfecting her self-taught craft was studded with trial, error and copious online video tips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Hollywood studios in the 1990s were perfecting the art of the blockbuster even as indie filmmakers found new ways to reach ordinary moviegoers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Here in the United States, Mikel Arteta's dedication to perfecting Arsenal's routines is an approach England head coach Tuchel is looking to replicate.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Lily had spent the hour before locked in the bathroom we share, curling her hair and perfecting her makeup.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Vocabulary lists containing perfect
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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