perfection
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Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
“I’m still trying to get a little further along the road to perfection, or salvation,” Rollins said in a 2011 Times profile.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Bread pudding doesn’t ask for perfection or specialty ingredients.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
Now men and boys are facing their own heightened images of perfection: sharp jawlines, massive muscles, glowing skin.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Later it would seem to Pearl that the Richardsons must have arranged themselves into a tableau for her enjoyment, for surely they could not always exist in this state of domestic perfection.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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"Imperfect Me"
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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