personal best
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3.5
- noun
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récord personal
- That's a new personal best, boss.
- personal best time
- achieve a personal best
- runners' personal best
I I, I feel like I've truly done all that I can do to prepare to show up as my personal best, Like, let's see what happens.
- I I, I feel like I've truly done all that I can do to prepare to show up as my personal best, Like, let's see what happens.
- Why is it that you can do this best in track and field, that in in in big events, many people have their personal best, whether or not it's a world record.
- To summon the maximal amount of intensity in a time of work, think of your personal best, think of what you normally do, and then stretch.
- And secondly, the, the, the, the number of personal bests that you keep setting, when they start to get up there, you shorten your athletic career.
- This was a humdinger, a a new personal best and being the worst.
Examples
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At 6 feet even, if she clears it, it would be a personal best.
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Jon Rankin is a world-class miler with a personal best of 3:54.24.
Blog text (16) -
But he went on, and actually set his personal best.
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It's about finding your personal best.
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My personal best is a break of six.
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So once you set a personal best, your body has to adapt into that state and that takes quite a while.
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I don't care about getting my personal best, not just yet.
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Runners reported both their age and personal best times for the 1 mile, 5 and 10 kilometers, and marathon distance.
Academic text (1994) -
Matt has competed in powerlifting and weightlifting with personal bests of a 507-lb squat, 315-lb bench, and 505-lb deadlift.
Blog text (29) -
He achieved a personal best in the marathon, finishing in under three hours.
Synonyms
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3.3
A person's best result in a sport or activity
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3.2
Someone's best result in a sport or activity
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1.0
The greatest effort a person can make
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived: 'personal' restricts 'best' to an individual, so a learner who knows both words can infer 'someone's best performance'. This adjective+noun pattern is common across languages and follows ordinary English modification, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Personal best comes from sports where people write down their own fastest time or highest score. The word personal shows it is about one person and best shows it is their top result, so the phrase means 'the best performance someone has ever done'.