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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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Since the late 2010s, this pressure has been inescapably amplified by algorithms, nudging celebrities, influencers, and the people who follow them toward similar aesthetic ideals.

— Jaimie Potters, InStyle, 5 Aug. 2026
According to the New York Times on Sunday, that drive to capitulate lays bare a firm was caught between its progressive ideals and the business demand for corporate practice.

— Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of ideals

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Evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper’s exploration of the many manifestations of symbiotic collaboration.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
In Salento, each town nestled into a shallow valley or slim rise has its own dialectal name for the almond in its varied manifestations—as tree, as fruit, as orchard.

— Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026

Definition of manifestations

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Aviation has been a long-standing muse for many of the world’s finest cars—its influence seen across the automotive timeline from classics such as the concours-winning 1935 Voisin C25 Aerodyne to the recent Czinger 21 C hypercar.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026
For the fans, Europe’s spring classics, notorious for their cobblestones and miserable weather, had delivered that year.

— Tom Campbell, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of classics

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Television has its own example in Doctor Who, where generations of viewers have embraced different actors as the Doctor without abandoning earlier incarnations.

— David Deal, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Put all that together and this city has good reason to embrace a festival that, after 20 incarnations in Sweet Home Chicago, deserves to be seen as part of our summer furniture.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of incarnations

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Blind audience members received Braille programs, tactile models and live audio description, while deaf spectators followed overhead titles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Anthropic ran its tests without the standard safety safeguards in models that are generally available to the public.

— Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

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