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

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