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beau ideals

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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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Some computer forecast models are showing a chance of tropical development from an area of showers and storms in the eastern Gulf early next week.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
These include completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) by the end of 2026, which will establish the certifiable design baseline for the aircraft and enable the production and testing of certification-conforming models.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026

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When the amendment passed in the wake of the Civil War, many scholars say, the country took a step toward fulfilling the ideals of the Revolutionary War by extending individual rights – including a right to citizenship – to everyone.

— Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
The book argues that democracies erode through the backsliding of democratic ideals like mutual tolerance, along with legal processes like the weakening of independent courts.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

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As always, the fans came to Ballroom 20 ready to throw their own questions and ideas at the creative team.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 July 2026
In order to explore, to be open to new ideas and experiences—all core to eroticism, in Perel’s view—people have to feel stable enough to let their guard down.

— Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

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These athletic touches bring contemporary edge to mainstay classics.

— Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 20 July 2026
At the 44th annual Italian Family Festa, presented by the Italian American Heritage Foundation (IAHF), local chefs — both professional and festival-tested — will prepare Italian classics and other favorites.

— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 20 July 2026

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That the ideal was so ancient, and the examples so few, is precisely what makes the discipline remarkable.

— Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 19 July 2026
One of the earliest examples of sampling technology, its peculiar tone was initially conceived so that anybody could play, say, a flute, by using a tape recording of that flute remapped onto the notes of a keyboard.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 19 July 2026

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In Salento, each town nestled into a shallow valley or slim rise has its own dialectal name for the almond in its varied manifestations—as tree, as fruit, as orchard.

— Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
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

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