perfection
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I’m a firm believer that any meal involving golden egg yolks, a skillet full of sauce and toasted bread meant for dragging through said sauce is already halfway to perfection.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
It means the red-hot sector may now be priced for perfection.
From Barron's • May 12, 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
However Carroll disputed those claims, saying work to ready the craft had been conducted "as sympathetically as possible" and had not caused harm, with "safety put above historical perfection" in a small number of areas.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
The immediate appeal of Lamarck’s idea was that it offered a reassuring story of progress: all animals were progressively adapting to their environments, and thus progressively slouching along an evolutionary ladder toward perfection.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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"Imperfect Me"
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James Monroe's First Inaugural Address (1817)
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