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Lifelong perfect vision is not something to let go of lightly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
"When I was younger, I was seeing these people who all look perfect and the same, and I didn't," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Henkels is working his way up in a sport filled with talented athletes who have to maneuver their bodies like a gymnast in pursuit of a perfect score of 100 from the judges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
The conditions created the perfect situation to observe effects of the shot.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
His flicking tail was keeping perfect time to the music of the hills.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
"Stephenson perfects the idea of a railway, from start to finish," said Snow.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
Thus it adds to and perfects Dogmatic Theology, enriching our knowledge of God by way of making explicit the implications of Divine Creation and Providence to His image, man.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
John’s grandfather, an organist, impresses upon his pupil that music will only torment him if he thinks of it as an art form to be perfected; he must instead treat it as a “commodity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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
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
Instead, Reich employed a method of driving music along through constantly evolving reiteration, which was quite alternative to the tried and tested Western formulas perfected over several hundred years.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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She impressed casting directors with a repertoire of characters and accents she’d been perfecting since she was 4 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Thomas Edison’s “invention factory” transformed a rural hamlet into the birthplace of the modern age, by perfecting the first commercially viable incandescent light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
He was perfecting a technique by which the gold could be leached out of the rock by processing it with a cyanide solution.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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