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best-known

a. (en-superlativewell-known)

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best-known

adj. most familiar or renowned; "Stevenson's best-known work is probably `Treasure Island'"

Usage examples of "best-known".

He was standing in an unobtrusive corner near the entrance, talking to a big-eared boy whom I later saw leading around a horse from one of the best-known gambling stables in the country.

Gray Barker of Clarksburg was West Virginia's best-known UFO investigator.

Nadar even featured as the hero of one of Verne's best-known novels, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, as the thinly anagrammed "Michael Ardan.

The best-known of these auxins is a compound called indolyl-^-acetic acid, commonly abbreviated 7AA.

While clusters and nebulae shimmered overhead, envoys of the best-known denominations offered ancient wisdom from perfumed pavilions-among them the Inheritors, the Awaiters, the Transcenders .

While clusters and nebulae shimmered overhead, envoys of the best-known denominations offered ancient wisdom from perfumed pavilions—among them the Inheritors, the Awaiters, the Transcenders .

There are other corticoids with effects similar to corticosterone, and of these the best-known is one which Kendall called "compound E" and Reichstein "substance Fa.

It has consisted in always cultivating the best-known variety, sowing its seeds, and, when a slightly better variety chanced to appear, selecting it, and so onwards.

There it was found by a cat named Acapulco Gold-an ugly yellow Tom belonging to San Francisco's best-known gossip columnist.

Four days on the water pipe and I forgot all the best-known speeches from last century.

The chairman of what was both the world's largest arms manufacturer and the country's top military contractor could not be allowed a personal relationship with a man who was both the Senate's most outspoken maverick and the planet's best-known disarmament advocate.

There are several candidates among the best-known political infighters, but none has yet shown conclusively that he or she possesses the resources or the will to inflict significant damage on the Klingon Homeworld or, more significantly, the First City.

A way out of this design limitation is offered by molluscs, whose best-known land-living forms include slugs and snails.

So let us review and compare now, briefly, the ideals and destinies of a number of other of the best-known ascetic mythologies of peace.

The logo of the Terran News Channel filled the screen for a moment before being replaced by a head-and-shoulder shot of the TNC's best-known anchorwoman, Barbara Miles.