to make the best
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- He always tries to make the best of every situation, even when things go wrong.
- make the best decisions
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- But now they're making the best sunglasses in the game.
- Like it doesn't matter if you make the best shot list in the world.
- They even give prizes and have competitions about who can make the best predictions.
- If, if, if everyone's there with the purpose of making the best thing we can.
- And so we can try to measure these likelihoods and use that to make the best recommendation we can.
- I'm just trying to, you know, make the best music possible I can make and flood the market.
- I know that I was determined to make the best coming of age beach vampire movie ever made.
- You become the franchisor who is in charge of training guys to make the best sandwich in town.
- Did you read the paper last week that some lab made the best smallpox virus ever?
- Just make the best and we'll worry about marketing and pricing later.
Examples
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Part of adult life is learning to make the best of things.
Fiction book (1995) -
I make the best coffee in America.
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Did I make the best decision about where we went?
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All we can do is... ...use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.
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I make the best tea.
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I enjoy cooking when I have the time, and I often suspect I make the best chili in England.
Fiction book (1996) -
I make the best home brew and corn liquor around here.
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But I make the best statues in the whole city, and I am by conscience a modest man.
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With his experience, he can make the best desserts that everyone loves.
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Our team aims to make the best presentation possible for the upcoming conference.
Synonyms
2
3.5
To try very hard to reach the highest standards
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'make' (to produce) combined with 'the best' (superlative of good/highest quality) yields 'produce something of the highest quality.' This follows a standard syntactic pattern (make + NP with a superlative) found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Make the best comes from the simple picture of a maker who carefully chooses the finest parts and works slowly so the result is the very best; the verb make plus the word best gives the image of creating something top quality. So, to make the best means 'to create something of top quality'.