as in pretty
having exactly the right tone or style
a pitch-perfect performance
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Recent Examples of pitch-perfect
The report here is that Fanning has actually been offered the role of a young Effie Trinket, which again, seems like pitch-perfect casting for the part.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Gere leaped to musicals with Chicago (2002) and danced away with a Golden Globe and SAG Award for his pitch-perfect performance as slick defense attorney Billy Flynn.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
In actuality, everything — unbeknownst to him — was ridiculously staged in a pitch-perfect reality TV parody, as comedy improv actors like David Hornsby and pre-Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig would put Gould smack dab in the middle of absurd situation after absurd situation.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
At last year’s Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic was beaten in straight sets by an almost pitch-perfect Carlos Alcaraz, a man 16 years his junior.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Gere leaped to musicals with Chicago (2002) and danced away with a Golden Globe and SAG Award for his pitch-perfect performance as slick defense attorney Billy Flynn.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
In actuality, everything — unbeknownst to him — was ridiculously staged in a pitch-perfect reality TV parody, as comedy improv actors like David Hornsby and pre-Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig would put Gould smack dab in the middle of absurd situation after absurd situation.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
At last year’s Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic was beaten in straight sets by an almost pitch-perfect Carlos Alcaraz, a man 16 years his junior.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitch-perfect
Adjective
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There was even a collaboration with Hello Kitty featuring Ito’s monstrous Tomie, a creature who resembles a pretty girl but can grow a copy of herself from her smallest part and infest her victims.—
Sam Thielman,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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Fold linens neatly, use decorative baskets to corral smaller pieces, and work in a couple of decorative items such as a pretty storage box to dress up the piece.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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The goal for the team is to build robotic systems that adjust to the environment using just physics, which would require less computing power (or no computing power at all) to work.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2025
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His words in Italian, no more war, greeted with huge applause, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a just peace in Ukraine.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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Instead, eating and preparing them may simply entail extra care and adherence to best food safety practices.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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The film topped Entertainment Weekly's 2022 list of Tom Cruise-starring projects ranked by grade, and came in just behind Born on the Fourth of July as containing Cruise's all-time best screen performance.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
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For years, American consumers have been able to spend next to nothing on the latest fashion trends, thanks in large part to Chinese clothing companies like Shein and Temu.—
Katrin Bennhold,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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In Jayden’s case, the doctors were not able to revive the boy.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Layne suggested Edward ride again the following week, and over time, as the Lamb family regularly made its way to the Batty farm, Edward started to point out the correct directions.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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This story was updated with a correct statement from the FBI.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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During arguments before the Supreme Court, several of the justices expressed concerns about the use of nationwide injunctions, but John Sauer, President Donald Trump’s solicitor general, faced pushback this week about whether limiting injunctions was appropriate in this case.—
Ramon Padilla,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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But now, with what is happening, the title is even more appropriate.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Burial evidence linked to potential victims of obstetric deaths suggests not all infants who died early received proper burials or were even born free.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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The helmsman, feeling swells beneath the vessel, gleans the proper heading, even in the dark.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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No surprise, then, the old playbook is in tatters without a sufficiently clear pathway to a more felicitous future.—
Paul Laudicina,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Yet the private life of the royal couple was rumored to be a far from felicitous one, with many stories of infidelities trickling out before and after the princess was killed in a car crash in 1982 at the age of fifty-two.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Pitch-perfect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitch-perfect. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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