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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
And in states like Tennessee, which does not carry out many lethal injection executions, members of the execution team do not have the chance to perfect their skill by using it a lot.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Boyle sent a short video, and there’s Densmore, still keeping perfect time at 81.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"At just 50-100 nanometers wide, these particles are the perfect compass needles," said Harrison.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The rest of our new classmates sat down, and Elliot began to recite the schedule with perfect accuracy.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
What I know of Science applicable to Farming is little indeed; but I know that there is such Science, and that each succeeding year enlarges, improves, and perfects it.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
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
X factor: It’s uniquely cool to be wielding weapons with so much history, whose use has been perfected over thousands of years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Apple under Cook has perfected a business model that limits the capital it employs to run its business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
How AQR perfected tax-loss harvesting to help the rich get richer.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
It is very sociable inside my head, and I have perfected the art of getting a lot of people arguing together in silence or in a forum, as I prefer to call it.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
He said that in a world focused on technology, where people can become caught up in making videos or perfecting production, writing requires nothing more than a pen and paper.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
We were quickly perfecting the art of scavenging.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary lists containing perfect
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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