Thesaurus results for PERFECTIONS

perfections

noun

plural of perfection

as in ideals

the most perfect type or example Rembrandt's portraits are the perfection of the art of using facial expression, pose, and gesture to reveal the subject's interior life

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Recent Examples of perfections 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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This mythologizing of a masculine, European (though crucially not British) version of Columbus supported burgeoning American ideals of Manifest Destiny (the idea that the United States was preordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and beyond).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
These unspool in the form of action scenes where the stakes aren’t just personal safety, but the larger ideals of a nation under political suppression.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of ideals

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Sports are in the midst of a global makeover from narrow manifestations of tribal interest to mainstays of the monoculture.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of manifestations

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Across the week-long trip, Clooney’s wardrobe comprised of all her classics.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026
Besides the several covers of ‘90s-era pop music classics by the likes of INXS and Tina Turner, composer Nathan Matthew David has contributed an original soundtrack incorporating traditional Filipino and Indigenous instruments.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of classics

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No Way Home drew on the superhero's previous film incarnations, bringing them all together as Peter Parker's world collapses.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2026
In previous incarnations, the project has included a luxury hotel, apartments and a Frank Gehry museum.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of incarnations

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The 33-year-old wasn’t the only superstar to strut down the runway, as fellow Bronx native Jennifer Lopez, mgk and J Balvin were also among the models in the show.

— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2026
Northeast faces a wet, windy weekend Forecast models have waffled back and forth for days but have been consistent on putting New England and Long Island, New York, in the bull’s-eye of the storm’s most significant rain and wind this weekend.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

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