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perfectionist

[per-fek-shuh-nist] / pərˈfɛk ʃə nɪst /


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Perfectionist: I’ve got a kind of screwball suggestion: dance.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022

The best-selling author of “The Professor and the Madman” and many other nonfiction books will discuss his latest: “The Perfectionist: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2018

Q. Perfectionist partner and cooking: My wife happens to be an amazing cook.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2016

On Twitter, while Apple cultists wrote 140-character homages, nonbelievers passed along snipes about Steve the Tyrant, Steve the Evil Boss, Steve the Micromanaging Perfectionist.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2011

Putney conservatism expelled it, and a Perfectionist Community, just begun at Oneida under the influence of the Putney school, received it.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey




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