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Noun
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Any coaching purist will tell you that’s the benchmark aspiration.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026 -
Iranians have occasionally rallied around reformist candidates, but they, too, have been undermined by hard-line revolutionary purists.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Smith-Njigba is a perfectionist, though.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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While Davis was known as being a perfectionist to a fault, which sometimes led to clashes with cohorts on her many movie sets, this wasn't the case between the two actresses while filming 1961's Pocketful of Miracles.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Criticaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criticaster. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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