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“Typically, the cheapest price that you find on the internet is not going to end up being your best overall deal,” said Jeep-Ram dealer Jared Glover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Nerys Amber-Stocks, best known for appearing in Out There and Mammoth, joins the cast as Mary's housemaid Lucy.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The Muse craze has sent shares of Meta toward their best monthly run in over two years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
That is because the refinery is accredited by the London Bullion Market Association, or LBMA, which sets the industry’s responsible-sourcing best practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Conservation of angular momentum is your best friend.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In 1971, the Osmonds tallied nine gold records, surpassing single-year bests by Elvis and the Beatles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Kenya's Doris Lemngole won the women's 3,000 in 8:31.39 with Britain's Hannah Nuttall second in 8:32.94 -- both personal bests.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
On a population-adjusted basis, by my calculation, only FDR bests him—FDR whose four presidential runs were all blowouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
But the third, about a Latino World War II pilot who bests a Yautja in a deadly flight contest, underscores ingenuity as being superior to any weapon or combat skill.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025
“A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate Roberts. Otherwise it makes no sense.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The U.S. swimmer bested Mark Spitz’s seven golds won at the Munich games in 1972.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Its third-quarter guidance for both profit and sales, at the midpoint, also bested forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The oysterman and former Marine who bested a popular governor and built a grass-roots network of more than 15,000 supporters in Maine announced he was suspending his campaign on Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The recent “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” dropped sharply at the domestic box office after its late-May opening, bested by low-budget horror films “Backrooms” and “Obsession.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
His hands did shake, but not all that noticeably, and perhaps the Inigo of before the brandy would have bested this fellow now in sixty minutes of solid fencing.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
It’s outperforming huge companies like Nvidia and Google on some metrics, while besting gold and the world’s dominant currencies on others.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Among the company’s business segments, second-quarter sales for aeronautics, which includes the F-35 fighter jet, rose 9.3% to $8.11 billion, besting the FactSet consensus of $7.61 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The big-budget epic opened with $264 million at the global box office, besting many franchise films.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The 21-year-old now has the best figures in the format, besting the previous record held by Bhutan's Sonam Yeshey, who took eight wickets for seven runs against Myanmar in a men's T20 international in 2025.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
