Example Sentences

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Johnson’s faith in human perfectibility, he told me, inspired him to work to regain his strength.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Some see this as a triumph, progress towards the elimination of error and perfectibility.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

The communitarian movement was an unusual but emblematic example of the era’s faith in the power of love and reason to remake society around the principle of human perfectibility.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

This is where Coates obviously parts company with Obama, who campaigned on the very notion of hope and the perfectibility of America.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2017

Embedded in the history of the gene is “the quest for eternal youth, the Faustian myth of abrupt reversal of fortune, and our own century’s flirtation with the perfectibility of man.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee