at best
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"What they're being offered is, at best, a job, and for many, a precarious one," said the specialist in social movements at the Catholic University of Louvain.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Many of the resulting bottles were underwhelming at best and diluted the Merlot name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Those types of responses have riled her critics, who have portrayed her as indecisive at best, and an opportunist at worst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with?
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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