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- adj. preferred above all others and treated with partiality
Examples
“Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.”
“I was twenty years old, she forgave me, and, because I was twenty years old, because I was naive — still deceived, but no longer abandoned — I thought myself to be the best-loved lover, and therefore the happiest of men.”
“It tipped its hat to the Old West's decline—in favor of outer-space fantasy—when Buzz Lightyear replaced Sheriff Woody as a boy's best-loved toy.”
“By contrast, Daily Mail readers' best-loved biscuits include the garibaldi – named after Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi – followed by thin arrowroots, ginger crunches, chocolate wafers and rich teas.”
The Guardian: Crumbs! Sun readers love pink wafers: our biscuit secrets revealed
“Rock and pop legends Ronnie Spector (of The Ronettes), and Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (formerly of Sha Na Na) team up to host a celebration of the best-loved songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s in an all-new MY MUSIC concert event.”
“The new trail, says David Lillard, former president of the American Hiking Society and author of trail guides, “is a great conservation story … and destined to become one of the best-loved multi-use trails in America.””
“His account of the experience, first published as "Walden; or, Life in the Woods," may be the world's best-loved nature book.”
“His brother introduced him to the music of composer John Tavener, whose 1966 oratorio "The Whale," about the biblical Jonah, and his "Celtic Requiem," both came out on Apple - although these pieces are very dated now, and Tavener has matured into Britain's best-loved composer.”
“He is one of the best-loved men in cricket but it seems the old tensions between David Lloyd and the England and Wales Cricket Board are not far below the surface.”
The Guardian: FA set for club licensing power despite Premier League opposition
“You can feel the neon and big hair," said David Gordon Green, rhapsodizing over some of his best-loved movies from the 1980s.”
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