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Ruby was perfect just the way she was, Leffler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
This is a perfect example of selective default.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
"It's a helpful solution but it's not perfect."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Success requires a willingness to forgo bathroom breaks, a perfect sense of timing, and sheer luck that a train delay won’t derail a run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
For now it was enough to feel that baseball, still white and perfect, slide into your hand like it was coming home, to see the arc of it against the dark blue sky.
From "The Teacher’s 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 ● Jun. 22, 2026
The avatar perfects the theater, showing up with scripted answers.
From MarketWatch ● 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 ● Nov. 22, 2024
Ingredients may change as it perfects its brew.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
In artistic calm, he turns, polishes, perfects, embroiders and beautifies.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems M has perfected the art of using candor as a carapace, so that the image of her authentic self recedes the more Cusk’s writer spends time with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
After I lost my longtime gig, I decided to launch my own private computer course, based on strategies I’d perfected for decades.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
How AQR perfected tax-loss harvesting to help the rich get richer.
From Slate ● 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 ● Aug. 4, 2026
Magdalys tried to do the innocent-child face that Sabeen had perfected, but she was pretty sure it wasn’t working.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
While others were perfecting their sourdough loaves or getting into bird-watching during the pandemic, Facundo Monteiro Kempf, a 35-year-old who works in cybersecurity for Microsoft, was memorizing Burgundian vineyard classifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
The company’s ability to operate space-based data centers and ramp up rocket launches depends on perfecting critical technology.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
I think it takes years of perfecting a craft to become a stylist.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Why did he become obsessed with perfecting it?
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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