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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And in making their decisions to leave, both Kate and Hal are weighing the trade-off between access and ideals.

— Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
His latest, The Case for America, is a paean to the founding ideals of the country.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of ideals

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Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of manifestations

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This month Regal cinemas are re-running James Bond classics as the wait for a new 007 actor continues.

— Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
Below, Vogue rounds up 47 favorite cult horror movies, ranging from the very new to a few select tried and tested (and especially chic) classics.

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of classics

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Mike Flanagan’s story loosely co-opts the villain origin tale behind many of those incarnations — actor with an ax to grind gains shapeshifting abilities — but otherwise starts more or less from scratch.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
In Israel’s first decades, most Palestinian votes went to the Jewish-Arab Communist Party, in its various incarnations, or to Arab lists – parties affiliated with the ruling Labor movement and acting on its behalf.

— Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of incarnations

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Instead of manufacturing and physically testing hundreds of battery designs, engineers used computer models to evaluate more than 300,000 possible configurations before producing a prototype.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
The connective tissue between different models remains immature, and real transformation depends on it.

— Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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