Synonym: at the best. Similar words: best, had best, best of all, for the best, beside, besides, bespoke, be subject to. Meaning: adv. under the best of conditions.
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(61) Oil prices in nominal dollar terms are expected to stay flat, at best, between now and the year 2000.
(62) The distinction between the Romantic Historical and the straight historical novel is a fuzzy one at best.
(63) Intelligence, even codebreaking, is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning.
(64) His confidants are throwbacks to the past, lukewarm at best to economic and political pluralism.
(65) Schooling was seen by many parents as an irrelevance at best; at worst as a downright intrusion.
(66) Televised instruction is, at best, a useful adjunct to the real thing.
(67) But the analogies which are used to justify the transition are dubious at best.
(68) At best a needlessly expensive chemical is used where a cheaper, equally effective detergent, would suffice.
(69) At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.
(70) At best, training may open new avenues or provide contacts which may lead to employment interviews.
(71) At best, we can discern a pattern in the cases and views expressed about them.
(72) Economic gurus tend to think of themselves as hard scientists, while caricaturing educators as limp, at best.
(73) Yet the Basle requirements were at best a crude measure of credit exposure-albeit one that is easy to apply.
(74) Correct the problem Correcting your writing problems might sound daunting at worst, annoying at best.
(75) Current teacher training programmes will at best fill vacancies and make good existing shortcomings.
(76) It is therefore going to be, at best, a bumpy ride.
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(77) Hers was the record of, at best, a foot soldier in the feminist and abolitionist struggles of her day.
(78) At best, therefore, Freud's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research.
(79) Entry is gained from an alley on the side, so narrow that it can at best take a single car.
(80) At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing, eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery.
(81) The result would, at best, have been clerical absolutism, at worst, Communist takeover or civil war.
(82) Although it is possible to achieve some degree of change without top-level commitment, that change is likely to be ephemeral at best.
(83) Why did socialist feminists accuse us, at best, of being hedonistic female chauvinists, and at worst, Fascists?
(84) At best, he is summarising our human tendency to dualism.
(85) For most people breakfast is a time to renew contact with the world, often through bleary eyes at best.
(86) Mostly they turned out to be thinly disguised candidate ads, a violation of the spirit of the law at best.
(87) As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth.
(88) The market in 1994 was at best indifferent, rewarding only the most astute stock pickers.
(89) I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.
(90) At best, they put in a decent effort in executing the entrepreneurial hero's grand design.