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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Their romance proceeds in soft focus with a soundtrack of accelerated heartbeats and musical interludes, as well as pretty camera shots of raindrops flashing in the sun.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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How to Watch Warriors vs Timberwolves Game 2: Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 Time: 8:30 PM ET Channel: TNT, truTV Stream: Sling (WATCH) Golden State stole Game 1 on the road, but paid a pretty price in losing Stephen Curry to a hamstring injury that is expected to keep him out for at least a week.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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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
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Related Articles Despite all the economic turmoil in the world, the shopping center industry has been in good shape.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
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But the agents, at their best, will be working for us, not instead of us.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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The office would be able to investigate complaints and sue companies over violations.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
15 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
Adjective
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This story was updated with a correct statement from the FBI.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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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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But now, with what is happening, the title is even more appropriate.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
18 May 2025
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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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To have a golf course — the quality, a major championship-caliber one in Quail Hollow — just south of Charlotte’s center city proper, not a lot of cities can come up with that kind of opportunity.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
14 May 2025
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Build fitness gradually: Improve endurance with regular, low-impact exercise like walking or swimming. Use proper posture: Stand upright and keep shoulders relaxed to allow better lung expansion.—
Emily Brown,
Verywell Health,
14 May 2025
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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 22 May. 2025.
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