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perfect

[pur-fikt, per-fekt] / ˈpɜr fɪkt, pərˈfɛkt /






Usage

What are other ways to say perfect? The adjective perfect emphasizes completeness, and also high quality and absence of defects or blemishes: a perfect diamond. Complete implies that a certain unit has all its parts or is fully developed or perfected, and may apply to a process or purpose carried to fulfillment: a complete explanation. Intact implies retaining completeness and original condition: a package delivered intact. Entire means whole, having unbroken unity: an entire book. 

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“The perfect buyer found this home. Drawn to its rich history, heritage, and pedigree, he plans to restore it to its classic roots,” Rosten tells Realtor.com.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Shubhra Gupta, external of The Indian Express, who gave the film three stars, confessed to initial misgivings about its extravagant scale but found herself gradually won over, calling it the "perfect epic".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

To find the perfect outfits that embodied this enmeshment, I returned to the place where I’d found my first bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"The moon is perfect, and yet I only found two little ones last night," Giuseppe Esposito, 69, told AFP as he searched with his dog Attila.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

“This is just for the employees. My boss’s office is near the front entrance; it’s bigger and doesn’t look like the perfect space to interrogate someone,” he quips.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

Vergennes, Comte de, French minister, policy toward the American Revolution, 505-506, 507; perfects an alliance, 508; sends De Grasse to America, 530; dealings with John Adams, 532-533; treaty of peace, 534-538.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Welbeck was a goalscoring sub at Manchester United and Arsenal but perfected the art on the south coast, with 12 of his tally coming during six years with Brighton.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

He started working with a renowned quarterback guru, Jeff Christensen, who marveled at his new pupil’s obsessive work ethic as he perfected the twist of his torso and flick of his wrist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

If Silicon Valley has perfected any business model, it’s the one in which it cooks up a new technology and then persuades people they can’t live without it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“You don’t see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The road to perfecting her self-taught craft was studded with trial, error and copious online video tips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

Hunched over sizzling grills and shrouded in smoke, trainees at the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in southern China roast skewer after skewer of succulent beef tendon, perfecting the skills that could land them a restaurant job.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 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

Besides, I’ve been avoiding her bearish eyes until the opportune time in the locker room, pretending I’m really into perfecting my squats.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali


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