personal best
noun
: the best achievement one has ever had
Her time in the race was a personal best.
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Whether his work on Anderson’s woozy epic of resistance is his personal best is debatable — the competition is fierce.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
Signed in the summer of 2023 after the Seattle Kraken inexplicably chose not to qualify him, Geekie immediately set a personal best with 17 goals that season and then nearly doubled it in ‘24-25.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
On Cloudsurfer Next Looking to shave a few seconds off your personal best?
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025
Combined with earnings from the contemporary sale that followed, Sotheby’s raked in $706 million total in a personal best for the global auction house.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
Signed in the summer of 2023 after the Seattle Kraken inexplicably chose not to qualify him, Geekie immediately set a personal best with 17 goals that season and then nearly doubled it in ‘24-25.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
On Cloudsurfer Next Looking to shave a few seconds off your personal best?
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2025
Combined with earnings from the contemporary sale that followed, Sotheby’s raked in $706 million total in a personal best for the global auction house.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025
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“Personal best.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal%20best. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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