next best
Example Sentences
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The owners know they can’t legislate smarts into their contract, so they’re trying the next best thing — tying the hands of their own big spenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It holds best for consumer applications, where consistent output matters more than leaps in quality, and worst for coding tools, where developers keep chasing the next best model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Andy Flower, I think from what I've read is the one that they wanted. He turned that down so it was like 'OK, how do we get the next best?'"
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
And if they couldn’t stick to the center, they did the next best thing and swerved to the shoulder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The next best reader averaged from a hundred to a hundred and ten papers.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
