imperfect
Example Sentences
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But it’s also imperfect, particularly in a market crowded with everything from exchange-traded funds to high-frequency traders that can be heavy traders without necessarily making a major move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Across media, Griffin believes Lynch’s strangeness ultimately serves a humane purpose: It returns viewers to the difficult, daunting, delicious business of being an imperfect person in an imperfect world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Polling is an imperfect instrument, and asking voters whether they favor a given candidate or policy doesn’t always tell you why they feel the way they do.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
But the US official said that Betancourt was a "proven operator", while acknowledging that geopolitics sometimes involved dealing with "imperfect" characters.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
We went back to diagramming sentences, focusing on the imperfect tenses.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Vocabulary lists containing imperfect
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Imperfect Me"
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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