adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
world
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Fun-lovers live superficially, afraid to face suffering and to enter deeply into the ambiguities and hurts of an imperfect world .
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In the imperfect world in which we live, however, there exists a whole range of different interest rates.
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Social workers work in an imperfect world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Imperfect goods are sold off cheaply.
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Democracy, no matter how imperfect , is still the best method of government.
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In general, people have a very imperfect knowledge of the law.
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She has anxieties and fears, like anyone else in this imperfect world.
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The conversation was limited by my imperfect Spanish.
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You have to accept that most relationships are imperfect .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a mere imperfect mortal, I find myself working twice as hard to introduce those whom I like to the Lord.
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For example, the modelling of the corporate sector, particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.
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In practice, the invisible foot is sometimes a very imperfect incentive structure.
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In the imperfect world in which we live, however, there exists a whole range of different interest rates.
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She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own.
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Some readings seemed high, possibly because of imperfect masking of the plant boxes.
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The copy is then imperfect and the proteins it will create may be entirely different.
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They had too much work to do in too little time with imperfect information and limited resources.