best thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbestandthing
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best
adjective
uk/best/us/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofbestandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbest thing
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It is thebestthingthat could happen for us.
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Thebestthingabout our neighborhood is the people, our neighbors.
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The nextbestthingto being there : conducting the clinical research interview by telephone.
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Grandparents are indeed 'the nextbestthing', as we indicate in the title to this article.
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And so everyone lived, if not exactly happily ever after, then at least in a manner which optimized their preferences for public goods, which was the nextbestthing.
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She now believes that thebestthingshe can do in old age would be to preserve her legacy as a writer.
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Training in the history of ideas is vital, if only to reduce the tedious repackaging of the old as the nextbestthing, or one true path.
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If grain were not available to send, then cash was the nextbestthingsince it could always be used for purchases on the black market.
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But he could do the nextbestthingand simulate - rather than imitate - jazz sounds, and exploit their medial affinity.
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Human flourishing should, however, not be understood as having instrumental value - we should all aim to flourish simply because that is thebestthingto do.
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What is thebestthingabout it?
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The nurse made a decision that going home was thebestthingfor him, without considering his coping resources.
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In fact, perhaps thebestthinggoing for this book is the charming wit and style of its author.
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Thebestthingthat can happen is that he says yes, and then writes the review when the book arrives.
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Thebestthingabout this very excellent book is precisely the author's keen awareness that it is not the last word on the subject.
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Humility, he claims, is the last andbestthingleft in him, the "ultimate discovery" at which he has arrived, and "the starting-point for a fresh development" (195).
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The nextbestthingis to be left alone to get on with the business.
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