Thesaurus results for BEAU IDEAL

beau ideal

noun

ˌbō-ī-ˈdē(-ə)l

as in model

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

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as in ideal

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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Recent Examples of beau ideal The beau ideal of local graft was Hall’s boss, Fate Thomas, the Davidson County sheriff. —

James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 For those who’ve forgotten, celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti was seen for a time as the Democratic beau ideal, a brawler who could get under Trump’s skin and take the fight to the president like few others could or would. —

Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2025 The beau ideal of illiberal democracy is, of course, Viktor Orbán of Hungary, who outlined the term in a 2014 speech. —

Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024 Fieg is its beau ideal. —

Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2022 At Délice & Sarrasin, a charming French bistro in the West Village, vegans can bide their time in style, enticing new recruits with the beau ideal of meatless haute cuisine. —

David Kortava, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021 If Hicks is the beau ideal in today’s MLB, then Miles Mikolas is a throwback to the Roosevelt administration. —

Michael Beller, SI.com, 23 May 2018 Conservatives like to imagine Reagan as the beau ideal of a president who faithfully adhered to their principles, but Trump is the president who has actually done it. —

Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018 If Teddy Roosevelt was the Harvard beau ideal at the turn of the last century, Mark Zuckerberg is the Harvard man to be in the new millennium. —

William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016

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The road ahead However, as AI models improve and businesses become more savvy at integrating new tools, Llewellyn is hopeful about their utility.

— Sydney Goh, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
Rhoda says its approach addresses this limitation by training robot models on internet-scale video data before refining them with robot-specific learning.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026