at best

at best

The distinction between financial and artistic success is blurry at best.

From Slate Magazine

If usability and design are even considered, it’s an afterthought at best.

From TechCrunch

At best the first thorium powered generation is at least a decade away and will require as many subsidies as the current radioactive tea kettles.

From Phys.Org

At best, we can hope for modest gains in a couple years, followed by bigger improvements down the road.

From TIME

For everyone else, including cities and states, gaming halls are, at best, a risky bet.

From New York Times

It also shows that colleges are at best incapable of adjudicating allegedly criminal conduct, and at worst hopelessly biased.

From Los Angeles Times

They think of the latter as “soft skills,” ancillary at best.

From Huffington Post

Your comment was a bit rude, at best.

From CNN

It’s an artifical environment at best, not even close to the real world.

From CNN

Reviews of both devices were lukewarm at best.

From Wired

At best, he was a young politician whose time had not come.

From The Seattle Times

If there is a line, it is blurry at best.

From Huffington Post

At best, you choose someone who reflects the part of yourself you most want to hold onto.

From A.V. Club

All of these assertions are at best misleading.

From Huffington Post

Store it properly and it can, at best, survive a few million years.

From TIME

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