perfected 1 of 2

past tense of perfect

perfected

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adjective

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for perfected
Verb
  • In reading, both fourth and eighth graders’ results are down from 2022, while in math, fourth-grade scores have not improved since before the pandemic and eighth-grade scores are at their lowest in decades.
    Thibaut Delloue, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2025
  • With Friday’s victory, the Heat improved to 9-20 this season against teams currently with a winning record.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • McIlroy corkscrewed through a front-nine 33 and a back-nine 39 and finished even par.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Penn State has a 22-13-4 record this season and finished off Maine with a score of 5-1 before also taking down UConn 3-2 so far in the NCAA Tournament.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Select parlays have enhanced odds, giving customers the chance at larger winnings.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • There is evidence the skulls were significantly enhanced for the attachment of strong muscular jaws.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Season 1 saw them and their nearly grown children, Larry (Harry Richardson) and Gladys (Taissa Farmiga), move into an ostentatious mansion on old-money 61st St. Bertha set about scheming to rule high society the way her husband dominated business.
    Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
  • The video then cuts to present-day Rocco, now a fully grown and considerably larger dog, still happily being scooped up and carried to bed in the same loving fashion.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • The green version, limited to 78 pieces and sold by Louis Erard, uses a polished 42mm stainless steel case and is paired with a black toad leather strap.
    Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • This is a more desperate firefight than a polished enemy dispatch.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The victims, men aged 25, 31 and 40, were inside a gas station in the 800 block of East 63rd Street just before 4 p.m., when the gunmen entered and fired shots, police said.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • State law doesn’t cap the age for jurors, but those aged 72 and older can request to be excused, Carl Nagle, a Winston-Salem attorney with Nagle & Associates, told The Charlotte Observer.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • There are many excellent CRM platforms that are available at a much lower price point and that can serve the needs of most small and mid-sized businesses.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Along the way, there have been some other expressions as well, including single barrel, barrel-proof whiskeys, a series of excellent cask-strength American single malts, and rye whiskeys made with different grain varietals.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Uptempo with a bit of a ’90s country flair, the song is a superb, full-throttle musical vehicle for Housman’s confident, charismatic voice.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 June 2025
  • Moore, the eighth overall pick in the 2024 draft out of Tennessee, hit his first big-league home run, a game-tying solo shot to center field in the seventh inning, and preserved that tie with a superb diving catch of Yainer Diaz’s 109-mph line drive with two runners on to end the top of the eighth.
    Mike Digiovanna, Oc Register, 21 June 2025
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“Perfected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfected. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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