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finest

/ˈfaɪnɪst/ noun B1
  1. Police officers. (US, informal) · Fifty of New York's finest were on hand for security.
  2. Members of the military. (US, informal)
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‘Erected in the fifth year of the reign of James I, and standing upon the site of a much older building, the Manor House of Birlstone presents one of the finest surviving examples of the moated Jacobean residence—’”
The Valley of Fear, p. 81 · C1
I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I ever came across: a study in scarlet, eh?
A Study in Scarlet, p. 44 · B2
When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 53 · B2
"Big Bob Ferguson, the finest three-quarter Richmond ever had.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 55 · B2

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