pursuit of perfection

collocation in English

meaningsofpursuitandperfection

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pursuit
noun
uk
/pəˈsjuːt/us
/pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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perfection
noun[U]
uk
/pəˈfek.ʃən/us
/pɚˈfek.ʃən/
the state of being complete and correct in ...
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Thepursuitofperfectionin accuracy leads, perhaps, to an excessive administrative cost.
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It incites women to apursuitofperfectionwith consequences like eating disorders.
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I liked the idea of a self-contained, endlesspursuitofperfection.
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Due to his personalpursuitofperfection, he has a cold attitude and lacks compassion.
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For even thepursuitofperfectionmay be sin, if it infringes the rights and needs of another soul.
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Thepursuitofperfectionis important, even if the attainment of it impossible.
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Hackers assumed a willful blindness in thepursuitofperfection.
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He was not used to working with an artist who was in such habitualpursuitofperfection.
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The four trigrams supposedly move in an endless cycle from geon to ri to gon to gam and back to geon in theirpursuitofperfection.
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