ideal
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This makes him an ideal mark for a certain kind of salesman.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The prolonged hot weather created ideal conditions for the subtropical species to reproduce naturally, as the sand retained heat accumulated during the day.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Federer may no longer have the most major tournament victories—both Novak Djokovic and Nadal put his 20 in the rear view for men’s singles—but his leaping, balletic style remains the sport’s aesthetic ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
More than four in 10 Gen Z adults, 44%, say either full-time or part-time content creation is the ideal career, according to a Morning Consult survey.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
It was certainly not an ideal place, but for Meyer nothing could be ideal right now.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Those who stand up for their ideals and principles without compromise, and seek to communicate them clearly, certainly won’t win every election, and they may well suffer for their convictions.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
He enslaved more than 100 people at Mount Vernon, and historians continue to grapple with the contradiction between the nation’s founding ideals and the human bondage practiced by its first president, among his strong mythology.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
What we need to retrieve is the three great ideals, the basic tenets of human beings, like great politics, great family and religion or spirituality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"We had to rebuild our lives from scratch," De Zerbi told Lamrani, who says the Italian remains "true to the ideals of his youth and to his working-class roots".
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
What seemed perfectly normal to white Birmingham residents proved a genuine contradiction of our nation’s democratic ideals to outsiders such as Salisbury.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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Frindle
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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