greatest
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The discovery marks the greatest confirmed distance ever recorded between sightings of individual humpback whales anywhere in the world.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
He will be remembered as the greatest ever.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
But posterity will almost certainly remember Monday as the “Wemby game,” in which the 22-year-old Frenchman single-handedly dismantled one of the greatest teams, statistically, that the NBA has ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
For me, the soon-to-be-former late-night host has also been the single greatest argument for married Catholic clergy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
To solve what amounted to one of history’s greatest jigsaw puzzles, the INA put together a team of Turkish and American archaeology students and put them to work.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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