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as best one can



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Idioms and Phrases

To the ultimate of one's ability, as in We'll have to get along without it as best we can [Mid-1800s] Also see do one's best .
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As best one can at such a distance, she seeks to return us to the fraught hours of that Jerusalem spring.

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Jed Rakoff: The determination of the truth—as best one can do so—is a central feature of any just legal system, but it is not the only value at stake.

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To air out GT-R as best one can on public roads, twice we aimed its blood red hatchet nose up a favorite canyon.

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To admit that one wishes one’s mother would die; to forgive oneself for the wish; and to go on trying as best one can to make her happy to her dying day — is this not a true expression of love?

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One oughtn't, I suppose, to bother too much about the future, but arrange as best one can with the present; and the present bids me go home and try and get more things published.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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