Just a few years ago, I was shaking my head and saying I thought I'd had the best of times for journalism, and wouldn't want my children to join the trade.

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Kaveh said it was the best meal he'd had in his 59 days in Kurdistan.

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But my mother said it was the best pecan pie she'd ever had.

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Yet he had failed to grasp another military principle best expressed by General Dwight D.

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To put it differently, the 1990 would probably count as the best one-night stand you ever had, whereas you'd be inclined to propose marriage to the 1989.

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Losing the series shouldn't have been completely surprising for the Knicks, who'd fallen in a 3-1 hole in the best-of-seven series and had battled to simply force a Game 6.

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Even old-timers had to admit, in terms of natural talent, he was up there with the very best they'd seen.

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The last, surviving, written records of the Norse Greenland settlements, which had persisted for centuries, concern a marriage in 1408 A.D. in the church of Hvalsey, today the best preserved Norse ruin.

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