at ITS best – English Grammar Profiler

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The phrase “at its best” means that something is performing at its highest level of performance, excellence, or quality. It can be used to describe anything from a sporting event to a work of art to a natural phenomenon.

Here are some examples of how the phrase “at its best” can be used in a sentence:

The team played at its best and won the game.
The symphony was a masterpiece, Mozart at his best.
The Grand Canyon is at its best in the spring, when the wildflowers are in bloom.
The beach is at its best at sunset, when the sky is ablaze with color.

The phrase “at its best” can also be used in a more figurative sense to describe something that is particularly good or enjoyable. For example, you might say that a particular restaurant is “pizza at its best” or that a certain movie is “comedy at its best.”

Here are some other phrases that mean the same thing as “at its best”:

  • in top form
  • at the top of its game
  • in peak condition
  • in excellent condition
  • at its peak
  • at its zenith
  • at its optimum
  • at its maximum

In the English Vocabulary Profile, at B1, is the following entry:

at his/its, etc. best = at the highest level of achievement or quality

A search in iWeb corpus for:

at _APPGE _JJT

1 AT ITS BEST 28383

I‘m a huge fan of capitalism at its best.

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2 AT THEIR BEST 11959 3 AT ITS FINEST 8811 4 AT HIS BEST 8032 5 AT ITS HIGHEST 7418 6 AT ITS LOWEST 4632 7 AT ITS WORST 4609 8 AT YOUR BEST 4280 9 AT THEIR HIGHEST 3148 10 AT OUR BEST 2461 11 AT THEIR LOWEST 2405 12 AT YOUR NEAREST 2110 13 AT YOUR EARLIEST 1961 14 AT ITS WIDEST 1943 15 AT MY BEST 1846 16 AT THEIR WORST 1741 17 AT ITS SIMPLEST 1533 18 AT HER BEST 1286 19 AT ITS STRONGEST 889 20 AT ITS GREATEST 752 21 AT ITS DEEPEST 529 22 AT ITS FULLEST 523 23 AT ITS WEAKEST 521 24 AT ITS FASTEST 494 25 AT YOUR HIGHEST 459 26 AT HIS WORST 434 27 AT OUR LATEST 433 28 AT ITS NARROWEST 430 29 AT MY WORST 430 30 AT THEIR EARLIEST 415 31 AT ITS CLOSEST 404 32 AT THEIR FINEST 398 33 AT ITS PUREST 392 34 AT ITS EARLIEST 383 35 AT ITS LARGEST 376 36 AT THEIR STRONGEST 363 37 AT ITS THICKEST 345 38 AT HIS LOWEST 339 39 AT MY LOWEST 333 40 AT ITS BRIGHTEST 298 41 AT ITS HOTTEST 288 42 AT ITS SLOWEST 284

43 AT THEIR WEAKEST 280

44 AT HIS FINEST 275 45 AT THEIR LATEST 265 46 AT YOUR WORST 260 47 AT THEIR FASTEST 256 48 AT ITS THINNEST 251 49 AT ITS BUSIEST 233

The following superlative structure tends to require a following noun.

1 AT ITS MOST BASIC 2496 2 AT THEIR MOST VULNERABLE 681 3 AT ITS MOST EXTREME 312 4 AT THEIR MOST BASIC 286 5 AT ITS MOST FUNDAMENTAL 284 6 AT ITS MOST POWERFUL 228 7 AT ITS MOST INTENSE 213 8 AT ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL 211 9 AT ITS MOST EFFECTIVE 196 10 AT ITS MOST EFFICIENT 173 11 AT THEIR MOST ACTIVE 165 12 AT THEIR MOST RECENT 162 13 AT ITS MOST VULNERABLE 149 14 AT YOUR MOST VULNERABLE 146 15 AT OUR MOST RECENT 124 16 AT YOUR MOST RECENT 120 17 AT ITS MOST RECENT 110 18 AT OUR MOST POPULAR 107 19 AT HIS MOST RECENT 103

20 AT HIS MOST VULNERABLE 101