Definitions
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- adjective correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words
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Examples
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And now, in just 143 word-perfect pages, he has written a biography of Branch Rickey.
Jesse Kornbluth: Jimmy Breslin's 143-page Biography Of Branch Rickey Is Much More Than A Great Book About Baseball Jesse Kornbluth 2011
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Lithe and animated, Gambino flies through more than an hour of word-perfect flows, climbing on the lighting desk, freestyling capably, going walkabout in the audience, and rapping so fiercely into one girl's camera you fear for the spittle in its circuits.
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XX giving a word-perfect verbal commentary every 15 seconds, including the weather conditions, speed, location, nature of driving and details of any other road users.
Inspector Gadget RANTS about ‘car chases’ SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Some of them are near-perfect embodiments of the genre which their near word-perfect amanuenses have bodied forth, but that perfection pushes them far away from literature itself …
Zadie Smith, Mark Thwaite, Negativity and Whining for the New 2008
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Some of them are near-perfect embodiments of the genre which their near word-perfect amanuenses have bodied forth, but that perfection pushes them far away from literature itself …
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The remarkable bit was that his timed eight minutes of notes allowed Prezza to be almost word-perfect.
After Mandelson's storm, John Prescott calms – and charms – the Lords Michael White in the House of Lords 2010
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The audience is word-perfect and fills the room with the sort of vast wave of sound you only normally hear at football matches.
The Libertines 2010
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Rose's vivid talking and word-perfect quotation were joyous and generous.
Beard 2010
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By the time you read this, I ' m sure the cast will be word-perfect and slick; but I imagine some acting honors will still go to Caroline Blaki ston for her mad old bat, Lady Markby.
Lessons in Modern Morality Paul Levy 2010
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My grandmother, bored by inactivity within weeks of the move, created a job for herself at a commuter college in Sarasota, teaching Russian literature to tanned students who seem (based on my one classroom visit) constantly alarmed by her profanity, her heavy sarcasm, and her word-perfect memory of Pushkin's verse.
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