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Your stepmother might say: “Of course, my dear, that makes perfect sense. I appreciate you telling me in advance.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Having decided to target the youth market to offer the best chance of future success, it would be counterproductive to hold back someone already in their ranks, so Gabriel's call-up for Norway makes perfect sense.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The perfect one is raw spinach and banana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Telling our story fully is a form of respect for the American people and a commitment to constantly being in pursuit of a more perfect union.”
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
His flicking tail was keeping perfect time to the music of the hills.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
As “Maddie’s Secret” continues, and the titular Maddie falls deeper into the grasp of her titular secret, Early perfects that push and pull.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The avatar perfects the theater, showing up with scripted answers.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Just as a chef perfects a dish by experimenting with flavors and textures, the researchers used an iterative process, testing variations to find the ideal structure for the ionizable lipid.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Ingredients may change as it perfects its brew.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
They precede civil constitution, which merely perfects the obligation to practise them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Party Puffs started out selling ice cream and lemonade until Barham perfected his signature hot dog on a stick using his mother’s cornbread recipe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
During the album’s rollout, the pop star’s visage was perfected with the help of some uncanny AI smoothing, while her accompanying “Confessions II” short film featured a team of AI artists in the credits.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
At a potluck, the assorted offerings—the masala potatoes, a church-basement casserole, a barbecue sauce perfected over decades—represent the best of individual traditions and stories of identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
He’d eventually join the MGM art department, where he perfected a visual effect technique called “matte painting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was perfected in North China, spread and preempted or replaced any other nascent system, and evolved into the writing still used in China today.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Hunched over sizzling grills and shrouded in smoke, trainees at the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in southern China roast skewer after skewer of succulent beef tendon, perfecting the skills that could land them a restaurant job.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Here in the United States, Mikel Arteta's dedication to perfecting Arsenal's routines is an approach England head coach Tuchel is looking to replicate.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
In purifying and perfecting their homes’ water, he says, homeowners of the future will demineralize and remineralize what comes out of the tap, and then pump it full of oxygen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The company’s ability to operate space-based data centers and ramp up rocket launches depends on perfecting critical technology.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
I’ll get to play Grace day and night, perfecting my skills.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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