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as in ideas
someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation
she's our ideal of the concerned, caring physician
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as in perfections
the most perfect type or example
the Taj Mahal in India is generally regarded as the ideal of Mogul architectural beauty
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as in goals
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish
his ideal is to make enough money so that he can retire at 50
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Recent Examples of ideals
Messing received criticism on social media following the move, with many slamming her decision to share a post calling Mamdani — the son of Queen of Katwe and Mississippi Masala film director Mira Nair — as a jihadist, a term often used to describe those who violently defend Islamic ideals.
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025
What fed into your early ideals about writing and reading?
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Advertisement To lose hypocrisy would be to lose the very language of ideals.
—Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
With chapters on thousands of high school and college campuses, the group promotes conservative ideals like free markets, limited government, and individual liberty.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower’s lattice of iron—these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Despite how terribly damaging America has been recently, that country and those ideals remain worth fighting for.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
If, as Lloyd Matthews has argued, America’s founding ideals of liberty are intimately linked to Julius Caesar, that connection should remind us that such liberty requires due process to function properly.
—JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
So, Bevere concluded that was the end of the line for her pageant ideals.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2025
What fed into your early ideals about writing and reading?
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Advertisement To lose hypocrisy would be to lose the very language of ideals.
—Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
With chapters on thousands of high school and college campuses, the group promotes conservative ideals like free markets, limited government, and individual liberty.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower’s lattice of iron—these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Despite how terribly damaging America has been recently, that country and those ideals remain worth fighting for.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
If, as Lloyd Matthews has argued, America’s founding ideals of liberty are intimately linked to Julius Caesar, that connection should remind us that such liberty requires due process to function properly.
—JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
So, Bevere concluded that was the end of the line for her pageant ideals.
—Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideals
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The shareholder meetings give the youngest Browns in the sixth and seventh generations, and their distant cousins, a chance to meet and bounce ideas off one another.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Few characters are as beloved as those from The Wizard of Oz (1939), making for reliable costume ideas year after year.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The collection is built around a fascination of the forest, its mystery, beauty, and the sublime forces of nature, its perfections and imperfections.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The observatory is conducting a ten-year-long survey of the southern sky, dubbed the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, which has as one of its principal goals improving our understanding of the nature of both dark energy and dark matter.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Coming into his 21st season in the league, Ovechkin needed three goals to become the inaugural member of the 900 club.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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In an interview with Fortune, Brockman described building AGI as an end-to-end engineering challenge, one that spans everything from how the models are designed to the chips, servers, and data centers that power the training and running of models.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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The behavior observed in the village is a fair representation of the design choices made by the models’ creators.—
Tharin Pillay,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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More than thirty years later, even after Chuck scored nearly a hundred films (including the campy classics Chopping Mall, Ghoulies IV, and the DC Comics adaptation The Return of Swamp Thing), fans still single out his music for Deathstalker II.—
Bear McCreary,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Shopping the online jeweler’s collection means classics like tennis bracelets and diamond toi et moi rings boast a more accessible price without losing the elevated appeal of fine jewelry.—
Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
7 Nov. 2025
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These innovations can be used for a variety of purposes, including assisting humans with tasks, conducting research, or performing dangerous or tedious jobs.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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The current policy, last revised in 2010, allows students to possess electronic devices during the school day but prohibits their use unless approved for educational purposes.—
Kayla Huynh,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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In his petition, Kjoller, who was ultimately convicted on the firearms charges, alleges that all three cases included examples of AI use gone wrong.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Over 300 examples have been sold.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2025
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The impact of circadian rhythm disruption on sleep can cause other negative physical and mental manifestations.—
Pamela Assid,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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Given the disease’s wide range of trajectories and manifestations—from mild and manageable to severely disabling—some now regard it as a group of diseases, rather than a single one.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Ideals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideals. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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