- superlative of great.
greatest
Example Sentences
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He notes that in 2024 Elton John called marijuana legalization in the U.S. and Canada “one of the greatest mistakes of all time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Unified’s already adopted plan calls for more than 6,000 job reductions, slashing up to $500 million per year in extra services for schools with the greatest needs and seven unpaid furlough days for each worker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
His best work tunneled into life’s darkest spaces to excavate ideas about our fears and obsessions, often reflected through dazzling practical effects that matched the naturalism of his greatest feature: a singularly expressive, malleable face.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
If Gandhi elevated the hunger strike into a moral weapon, BR Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen, was deeply sceptical of it in independent India.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Would I have ever predicted that Charlie Ledley would have anticipated the greatest financial crisis since the Depression?” he said.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
