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If Finch didn’t want fans to know she was leaving until she had one foot out the door, it would make perfect sense.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Three decades later, his command of the Ukrainian language is far from perfect and his parents and brother still live in Russia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Alex Kirshner recaps the tournament and makes the case that its ending was perfect.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
But while Argentina was being petty and petulant, Spain was practically perfect in every way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
I’d scheduled the event so carefully—with as much time as possible to organize the perfect night, but well before his expected return so he wouldn’t be able to stop me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
"Stephenson perfects the idea of a railway, from start to finish," said Snow.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
And since what thus perfects must be something not potential but actual, it follows that, unlike real truth, real goodness is identical not with potential, but only with actual reality.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
On the plus side, it’s a hooky blues-rock number with rhythmic drive, which is a formula the Rolling Stones perfected roughly 60 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
We have perfected the military-industrial complex in a way that no other nation in history has.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 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
He had long since perfected the innocent look.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
That’s where Messi learned to marry his individual brilliance with the Dutch-infused, team-first style that Barcelona had been perfecting for nearly three decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
He said that in a world focused on technology, where people can become caught up in making videos or perfecting production, writing requires nothing more than a pen and paper.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 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
Multiple employees were perfecting the already-perfect plateaus of bell peppers and apples in the produce section.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Father spent months perfecting it before inking it into her skin.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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