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for the best

ADJECTIVE
advantageous
Synonyms
STRONGEST
auspicious beneficial expedient fortunate helpful opportune profitable propitious worthwhile
Antonyms
STRONGEST
disadvantageous harmful inauspicious inopportune unfortunate unhappy unhelpful unlucky unprofitable worthless

Example Sentences

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But it also might be motivated to find quicker paths back for the best players, just as it did with Koepka.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It’s for the best, in the long run, that the Ethics Committee appears to have retained control over these cases amid the ongoing call for blood.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

They test and retest the data for quality and build quality and risk guardrails into their mapped workflows, instead of hoping for the best.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

At this point, investors are hoping for the best and trying to ignore all the ongoing uncertainties about the war even as the S&P 500 wrapped up its worst quarter since 2022 on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Which should be fine and is likely for the best.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone