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I want to be my best self and have a team that represents itself in the best possible way.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
I can see how calling on our great companies, universities and hospitals to send their best efficiency technicians and cost-cutters could improve our government’s processes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
To the best of scientists' knowledge, it has the same value everywhere in the cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Times: Who is the best elected official in the history of L.A.?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
He smiles at me, and the room starts to spin, in the best way.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won top acting prizes; “One Battle After Another” bests “Sinners” for Oscars gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
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
That bests the S&P 500, which is up 15% and heading toward its weakest annual performance since 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
Mr. Hoser beat him to the punch, and this provoked the bested professional to write an article complaining that amateur herpetologists took shortcuts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kim bested Allen in the primary with 27.4% of the vote to his 19.4%, with an online campaign poll conducted for Allen in July showing that likely voters still prefer Kim by 7 points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Its third-quarter guidance for both profit and sales, at the midpoint, also bested forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
At January’s Australian Open on hard courts, Djokovic bested 24-year-old Sinner in five sets before falling to now-injured Carlos Alcaraz in the Melbourne final.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
I said, thinking of how I had often bested Laertes.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Alphabet’s shares are up roughly 70% in the past year—easily besting its Big Tech competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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 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
I tangled a bit with it, ended up besting him when he became impatient and tried to cut me from below.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
