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as in immaculately
without any flaws or errors
you did that handspring perfectly on your first try
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as in completely
to a full extent or degree
you know perfectly well what I'm talking about, so don't pretend that you don't the purchase and sale was a perfectly legal transaction
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Recent Examples of perfectly
The baby is perfectly fine, still healthy and kicking.
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
The end result matches the inspiration almost perfectly.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
Adam Newport-Berra’s sparkling cinematography perfectly captures the highest and lowest economies of Los Angeles, which is nice to see again in all its glory on the movie screen.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
The researchers used perfectly spherical silica particles just 200 nanometers wide, essentially superfine sand, to achieve the effect.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
The end result matches the inspiration almost perfectly.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
Adam Newport-Berra’s sparkling cinematography perfectly captures the highest and lowest economies of Los Angeles, which is nice to see again in all its glory on the movie screen.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
The researchers used perfectly spherical silica particles just 200 nanometers wide, essentially superfine sand, to achieve the effect.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perfectly
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The biggest downside of the WWE maze was the stretch of blackout hallways of nothingness — a rarity in the otherwise always immaculately themed Horror Nights mazes.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This is when a bone gets knocked out of its joint either partially or completely.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Lecornu will now have to steer a budget through France’s completely fractured parliament, macro strategists at Deutsche Bank flagged Wednesday.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Options, so many options Rotation was a key theme of Chelsea’s summer as Enzo Maresca excellently navigated their way to Club World Cup triumph in the United States.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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What began as a quick bite to hold me over until dinner turned into a fully fledged feast of lemon tagliolini with swordfish ragu, maccheroncini cacio e pepe with citrus, and paccheri pasta with tomatoes, burrata, and basil.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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By Saturday evening, the fire has been fully contained.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Each character’s hangups and drive are finely drawn throughout.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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Adverbs that pertain to cutting are also super important, like thinly, coarsely, or finely.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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The silk faille jacket was not quite white but a pale blush, and the loose pants and top beneath had an intricate pattern of silver beads.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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To my surprise, the burger was quite good; a gooey mesh of meat and cheese became one flesh.—
Joe Joyce,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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More Bryan Bennett/Getty Images Josh Allen went off in the fourth quarter to drive the Bills to victory against a true AFC contender, though the effort wasn't totally perfect.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The evidence of what happened during the COVID times, in my view, [is that] there’s a lot of public accountability on the central banks—not just in the United States but everywhere—and that’s totally fine.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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But, like Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar and Israel have all acquired talent through naturalisation, in particular east African distance runners.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Ashlee Simpson slayed in an all-black look featuring a cutout top and frayed asymmetrical hem.—
Jackie Fields,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Perfectly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perfectly. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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