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noun • a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself | ||||||||
| 36% | 10 | Engaged in forming a perfect or ideal conception of; mentally representing something as perfect or as near to perfect | ||||||
verb • consider or render as ideal • form ideals | ||||||||
| 24% | 14 | The adverb form of a term that defines a perfect or near-perfect efficiency process. | ||||||
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ALTEREGO which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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ALTEREGO
Updated: October 11, 2023
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