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purist

noun as in perfectionist

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This tension — between Roth’s love of visual flash and the brothers’ purist musical approach — yielded major dividends.

“I’m a country music purist,” she says.

Two unbeaten champions with differing but equally effective styles produced a match-up of the highest level in a fight to make the boxing purist salivate.

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“I’m not a purist when it comes to plants. I like to refer to them as climate-appropriate. But the more blacktops we can eliminate and the less stormwater runoff there is, the better our water quality and lives will be.”

“We see the rich tradition of national conservative thought as an intellectually serious alternative to the excesses of purist libertarianism, and in stark opposition to political theories grounded in race,” the website reads.

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