at best
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Arduous tests loom during the second half of the season, however, making the chances of getting the nod from the CFP selection committee a coin flip at best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Senior club sources have said they found the comments "absolutely bizarre", and that it was "at best naive and at worst quite manipulative, and that is not a good look".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Yet this “stability” is at best an aspiration and, more likely, happy talk obscuring an actively deteriorating relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The platform however argues it is a "generic male voice" whose perceived similarity to Tsuda's is subjective at best, according to court records accessed by AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
In truth, the tests were subjective at best, one exploding bottle difficult to compare to another.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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