perfect specimen

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For Dr. Allis, it was a perfect specimen for its mix of high levels of histones and gene expression activity.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2023

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

For Reno, Varga has been the perfect specimen to illustrate the benefits of Reno’s new focus on nutrition and body maintenance, although he chuckles about the Tupperware.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 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