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best

adjective as in correct, right

adjective as in most

noun as in most outstanding thing in class

noun as in highest personal effort

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I told him the best thing to do is to pay off the loan so he doesn’t damage his credit and sell the car for whatever he can get for it.

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He won five Tony Awards for best play and two Laurence Olivier Awards for best new play.

Prime rack track views are paired with some of the best food on the planet.

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Rugby Championship winners South Africa again finish the year as the world's best side after completing a second successive clean sweep of European tour victories following wins this month against Japan, France, Italy and Ireland.

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"I slowly learned that plays work best if you let them have some blood heat, and not simply be exciting exchanges of witty ideas," he told Joan Bakewell in a revealing interview in 2002.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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