How to Use at best in a Sentence

at best

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• For years, testing was spotty at best, and doctors often weren’t aware of the syndrome.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• Most highway expansion projects are justified on travel time savings that are at best short lived.
  — Pete Harrison, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
• Players, coaches, and analysts all agreed that the red card was harsh at best, and inaccurately given at worst.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• To think that risk disappears when hiring an expert is, at best, naïve and, at worst, strategically negligent.
  — Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• The original decision to hand Baloguin a red card was, at best, terrible.
  — Mac Engel july 5, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 July 2026
• Five-time World Cup winners Brazil have the attackers for it, but their midfield and defence were at best meandering, at worst anaemic.
  — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 7 July 2026
• Yet Potter was, at best, in a fight with Jay Huff for the Pacers backup center role heading into the coming season.
  — Tony East, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Historically, Western norms during the 19th and 20th centuries held that to not eat meat is odd at best, and suspicious at worst.
  — David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
• In my observation, ramp-up times often exceed eight weeks, which means that the typical summer intern is only achieving meaningful output for, at best, the final two to four weeks.
  — Byron V. Garrett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• But this narrative of the USMNT winning formula is, at worst, wrong and at best, incomplete.
  — Michael Morris, Time, 1 July 2026
• In fact, rovers on the surface of Mars have observed both moons pass in front of the sun, and at best, Phobos (which is larger than Deimos and closer to the planet) covers only a fraction of the solar disk.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
• Now back in King’s Landing, Corlys is distracted at best, meeting with Rhaenyra’s small council to address the crown’s nonexistent funds — the latest on a long list of problems that need solving for the new Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
  — Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 6 July 2026