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The result is a metaphysical model that, at best, lacks clarity, and at worst obscures the very nature of reality.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

To be sure, index inclusion represents passive buying, and buying drives up stock prices, but passive buying, at best, creates short-term distortions in price, not long-term distortions in value.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Cash incentives—the go-to tool of governments from Budapest to Seoul—have produced at best a temporary blip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

The disturbing thing is that it’s a question whose answer, to any well-read observer, is uncertain at best.

From Slate • May 27, 2026

Poor Lydia’s situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she had need to be thankful.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen




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