ideal
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Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Elite teams managed by him maintain an ideal combination of intelligence within structure, and he has players capable of improvising solutions when patterns break down.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
According to the team's model, this could leave surface waters increasingly depleted of phosphate, creating ideal conditions for methane-producing microbes to grow.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
“For a long time, I believed in an ideal, a national, sovereign, civic Hungary,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
I know what she means—round tables are ideal for Autumn so she can see everyone, but oval and rectangular tables make it hard to understand dinner conversation.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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