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“Romina is someone who doesn’t take no for an answer. She is fiercely independent. She is a perfect example of Iran’s Gen-Z women,” said Nourmohammadi, her cousin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
A new generation of neuroscientists saw FTD as the perfect sample set to understand what happens when things go awry in the formation of human consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
We live in a perfect geological machine for flooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"And that might mean going towards something more universal to get to more children, rather than something that's perfect, but only answers part of the problem."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Major Puff would not hesitate to claim ownership if he really wanted the almost perfect burrow.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
Mankind perfects as a whole, and the sighed-for millenium is coming bye-and-bye.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
Whether it is Borussia Dortmund's famous 'Yellow Wall' or the displays that fill the stands of Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena, Germany has long perfected the art of the tifo.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
X factor: It’s uniquely cool to be wielding weapons with so much history, whose use has been perfected over thousands of years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
After I lost my longtime gig, I decided to launch my own private computer course, based on strategies I’d perfected for decades.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
How AQR perfected tax-loss harvesting to help the rich get richer.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rishi raised his eyes, making sure to wear the “bored mask” he’d perfected at private school.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The road to perfecting her self-taught craft was studded with trial, error and copious online video tips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
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
He keeps working on perfecting the human figure using all these media and opaque white paint.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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