perfect

Jongho: We always used to beat ourselves up when things didn’t go as planned, even if it was just a little mistake or it wasn’t as perfect as we had imagined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

He spent two decades working in seclusion and hardship to perfect his poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

If there’s any version of the perfect care community for somebody like Anna today, Poo said, it’s for the “uberwealthy,” who can put a lot of money toward care for a few select individuals.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

The documents highlighted a "perfect explosive mixture", "serious risk to personnel" and a smell of gas so strong the authors claimed they could not stay in the area to complete their report.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

No—Mom and Dad would focus all their attention on him; it’d just give Mr. Reardon the perfect opportunity to hide the file.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

An accomplishment, in its accepted meaning, is "something acquired which perfects or makes complete; an attainment which tends to equip in character, manner, or person, and which gives pleasure to others."

From The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by John A. Cone

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

As a result, he says, "I think readers are coming to value very obviously personal writing, and maybe even writing that's messier, less structurally sound or composed or perfected, than they maybe once would've desired."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

On the precipice of World War II, the Dow Chemical Co. perfected a way to extract magnesium from ordinary seawater, giving America access to a virtually inexhaustible supply of a metal vital to modern warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

We had the voices perfected and the theme song choreographed, and we used to do these performances on the ledge in front of the fireplace.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

The real priority was perfecting the Ali shuffle in the ring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

When I visited his Menlo Park, Calif., office, I learned he designed it, all the way down to restroom paper towel dispensers, which he stayed up until 2 a.m. some nights perfecting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

Why did he become obsessed with perfecting it?

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day