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Mr. White came through it all as perhaps the best-known and best-liked officeholder in Illinois.

If Miss Sayers can maintain the standard she has set for herself in this tale, there seems to be no reason the discerning, but by no means infallible, Lord Peter should not become one of the best-known and best-liked of the amateur detectives of fiction.

The two just keep sniping at one another, and even though Koepka might not be the best-liked guy among fellow players, he’s Arnold Palmer and Davis Love III compared to DeChambeau, who has become a pariah in the locker room and even with the relatively benign golf media.

In theory, it ensures the outcome best-liked by the larger number of people, and decreases the chances that a third-party or fringe candidate can play spoiler.

“Friends” might be the best-liked sitcom ever — by which I don’t mean “best” or even “most popular,” but simply that its overarching success was to create a sense of genial affection toward itself and its characters.