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The best drills I ever trained in is about understanding what's happening in the game.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The business was a source of pride to the Romanovs as “a domestic firm that could not only compete on the world stage but could best the most famous corporations from Europe and America.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Where are the best affordable meals in Los Angeles for under $25 per day?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Called a “working class” champion by the United Auto Workers, El-Sayed performed best in wealthier, higher-educated areas of the state.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
What with her being my mom’s best friend, you’d think she was maybe spying for my parents, but more often, her presence was like wearing a life preserver.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
After almost three hours on their feet and the finish line in sight, two runners sacrificed personal bests to come to the rescue of an exhausted competitor at the Boston Marathon.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
In 1971, the Osmonds tallied nine gold records, surpassing single-year bests by Elvis and the Beatles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Kenya's Doris Lemngole won the women's 3,000 in 8:31.39 with Britain's Hannah Nuttall second in 8:32.94 -- both personal bests.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
On a population-adjusted basis, by my calculation, only FDR bests him—FDR whose four presidential runs were all blowouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
“A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate Roberts. Otherwise it makes no sense.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Its third-quarter guidance for both profit and sales, at the midpoint, also bested forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The oysterman and former Marine who bested a popular governor and built a grass-roots network of more than 15,000 supporters in Maine announced he was suspending his campaign on Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
But Allen, typically, was not fazed, saying his show bested the competition in key markets and was more comparable with the same time period last May before Colbert’s post-cancellation victory lap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Nigel Farage’s upstart Reform UK Party bested both the Labour and Conservative parties and gained more than 1,400 new seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
That didn’t mean he was going to let himself be bested by some thieving merch.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Among the company’s business segments, second-quarter sales for aeronautics, which includes the F-35 fighter jet, rose 9.3% to $8.11 billion, besting the FactSet consensus of $7.61 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Since moving to Germany, Kane's numbers have gone stratospheric, besting Haaland's goal tallies every season and establishing himself as a frontrunner in the race for the Ballon d'Or.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
Tech shares regained some ground this past week, with the Nasdaq besting the Dow industrials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
