But wherever compromise tried to sneak in at the expense of absolute quality, we tried to resist it.

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The primary goal of the music technology industry has historically been to make music available to consumers in a convenient medium, but that goal is increasingly giving way to a new pursuit: delivering the absolute best sound quality possible.

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The rear camera doesn't claim an absolute crown for quality now that the Lumia 920 is in the field, but it still produces some of the sharpest, cleanest images we've seen, and it's one of the few that can take photos in the dark with hopes for a truly usable picture.

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Is the absolute color or image quality on the iPhone 5 superior?

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We could ask the rating agencies to give up attempting to produce absolute measures of credit quality and instead focus on providing only relative measures.

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While Rent the Runway does exhaustive quality control to ensure the absolute perfection of their rental inventory, their product is as much an about self-empowerment as it is about a physical product.

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The single most important quality of a leader, the sine qua non, is absolute professional integrity.

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