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imperfect

[im-pur-fikt] / ɪmˈpɜr fɪkt /


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While the paper acknowledges that chain-of-thought monitoring is imperfect, and may be fragile, the authors wrote that the technique shows promise for detecting AI misbehavior, and the industry should study ways to preserve it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Your imperfect, wonderful life was always a shared endeavor.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

An ode to imperfect fruit: Tangerines that are a breeze to peel.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Monday’s victory — imperfect but convincing — reinforced those assumptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Which is to say that several secret meetings were occurring at the same time; and the political corridors were even more labyrinthine than Jefferson’s imperfect memory of events.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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