imperfect
Example Sentences
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It is striking that Webb frequently invoked U.S. shareholder rights as a model for Hong Kong to emulate, albeit an imperfect one.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Each one was slightly imperfect, dusted generously with cinnamon.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
The San Fernando Valley native is a brilliant director who has made sprawling, messy epics about imperfect people synonymous with his name, like John Ford with Westerns or A24 with art house flicks.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Both approaches can miss events, depend on imperfect memory, and cannot record gas production while someone is asleep.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing imperfect
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" and "Sonnet 43," Vocabulary from the poems
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"Imperfect Me"
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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