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[ adjective ] not to be surpassed

Synonyms

top

Examples

"his top effort"

Used in print

(Successful Farming, 59:12...)

Greatest benefits have been associated with feeding low moisture corn in beef feeding programs .

(R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)

Not_only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number , he ended by destroying himself , by giving birth to monopoly capitalism .

Not_only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number , he ended by destroying himself , by giving birth to monopoly capitalism .

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United_States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment - and the bitterest irony - enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon :

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

Ideas , in and of themselves , are not necessarily the greatest good .

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maximal

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[ adjective ] greatest in size of those under consideration

Synonyms

largest biggest

Used in print

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

Instead of Catholics ' being obliged or even encouraged to beget the greatest possible number of offspring , as many non-Catholics imagine , the ideal of responsible parenthood is stressed .

(Statements 87th Congress, 1st Session. Appropriations,...)

Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department_of_Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will , to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements , be available to advance the purposes of_this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation .

(Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)

Strategy and tactics of the U._S. military_forces are now undergoing one of the greatest transitions in history .

(Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)

The greatest impact of the matching fund principle has been in initially encouraging the poorest states and school districts to spend enough to obtain their full allocation of outside funds .

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large

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[ adjective ] most of

Examples

"spoke for the greatest part of an hour"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Buffalo coach Buster_Ramsey , who has become one of the game 's greatest collectors of quarterbacks , apparently now has found a productive pair in two ex National_Football_Leaguers , M._C._Reynolds and Warren_Rabb .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Artur_Schnabel was one of the greatest Schubert-Beethoven-Mozart players of_all_time , and any commentary of his on this repertory is valuable .

(Leon Uris, Mila 8....)

What I mean is , he was a Pole and the greatest soldier in the Ulanys .

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

Leaving the theatre after the performance , I had a flash of intuition that life , after_all ( as Rilke said ) , is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee , and that this unpretentious , moving , clever , bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks_Atkinson retired .

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best

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[ adjective ] greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

Synonyms

leading preeminent

Examples

"our greatest statesmen" "the country's leading poet" "a preeminent archeologist"

Used in print

(Mr. America, 4:6...)

The Pushup done in this manner is the greatest pectoral rib_cage stretcher ever invented !

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superior

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[ adjective ] highest in quality

Used in print

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

Is it not characteristic of the greatest art that it confronts us with something we cannot clarify , demanding that the viewer respond to it in his own never predictable way ?

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superior

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