Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of best loved.
Colchicums are Britain’s bestloved autumn bulbs.
2017 September 4, Nigel Colborn, “Autumn cheerleaders: Plant bulbs now for swathes of colour in the cooler months, says Nigel Colborn”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 20262 more examples
For his new album, “For Better, or Worse,” his second collection of duets with female singers, they all came to him, in Nashville. “We did it live,” he says. “Starin’ in each other’s eyes.” It was the same for this record’s 1999 predecessor, “In Spite of Ourselves,” which has become one of Mr. Prine’s bestloved works, despite being mostly cover versions of old-school country songs.
2016 September 21, Richard Turner, “John Prine Sings Duets in New Album, ‘For Better, or Worse’”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLCI remember the time we were granted an interview with Robert De Niro from New York. It was the height of Covid: New York had been decimated by the disease, makeshift morgues and a ghostly city abandoned by anyone with the means to leave. It was a sobering but equally an exciting time to have an interview with one of the world’s bestloved actors.
2022 August 25, Emily Maitlis, “I’m not a disgruntled ex-BBC employee – but when an agent of the Tory party decides the broadcaster’s ‘bias’, it’s a huge problem”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2022
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