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beau ideals

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plural of beau ideal

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someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation she is the beau ideal of the dedicated medical professional

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the most perfect type or example Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous architectural creation, Falling Water, is widely regarded as the beau ideal of a building in harmony with its setting

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Apple’s iOS is effectively a day-one drop for the new iPhone 18 Pro and older iPhone models, following a significant beta test that any current iPhone can join.

— Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Such multi-modal time-series measurements could lead to building better predictive models.

— Rachel Martin, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

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But those ideals block the play from being fully honest—by letting ugliness stick around.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
The difference in ideals from reality is captured in the speeches that Romanzy and then Laura in a last minute substitution for Mary make at Founder’s Day, describing the town.

— Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 9 July 2026

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At the Rio Grande Lounge, Southwestern bar fare, burgers, and New Mexican classics, such as enchiladas, are served with a side of live music.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
Some shouted out cult classics like Possession (1981), in which Neill provided the ballast that allowed his co-star Isabelle Adjani the chance to dive headfirst into the deep end, or the Hitchcock thriller on a boat Dead Calm (1989).

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026

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Long considered one of the finest examples of colonial architecture to be found in Connecticut, the Ebenezer Grant House harbors a pleasant surprise.

— James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
To date, examples have included 328-foot (100-meter) long turbine blades, large military vehicles, satellites, and aircraft fuselage parts, among other notable examples.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026

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The persistence of these misconceptions matters because clinicians and the public alike may expect Ebola to look dramatic from the outset, when in reality its early manifestations often resemble many other common infectious diseases.

— Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 26 June 2026
The Cane Ridge Revival would become an epochal moment in American religious history, one of the most visible manifestations of what historians would later refer to as the Second Great Awakening.

— Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026

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