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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As a subset of flowering plants figured out long ago, many flies and some beetles are drawn to the putrid and foul over the pretty and floral.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
8 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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Police and fire departments have sometimes defeated disparate impact challenges over physical fitness test requirements on grounds that good fitness is essential to those jobs.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 May 2025
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This is also a pivotal episode for Ellie and Dina, who get themselves into a good bit of trouble on their first day looking for Abby.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Airlines have been working with passengers to reschedule or refund tickets, but questions are starting to emerge about whether Newark will be able to handle the high volume of flights this summer.—
Alecia Reid,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Jockeys from abroad are primarily able to get their foot in the door competing in the U.S. by using the P visa for athletes and O visa for individuals with extraordinary achievement.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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My life was just 93 more respondents away from being cosmically deemed correct!—
Jessie Rosen,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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If the expert’s timeframe is correct, that means Yarborough would have been dead long before the cookout began.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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The Dallas starters were a little out of sorts, and Bueckers struggled to find the appropriate balance between hunting her shot and feeding her teammates.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Finally, be sure your timers are set to the appropriate schedule.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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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
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In other cases, cut back on watering your indoor plants and install proper drainage in moisture-prone areas like the basement or crawlspace.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
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 18 May. 2025.
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