The phrase "a best path to" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used when discussing the most effective or optimal way to achieve a goal or outcome.
Example: "Finding a best path to success requires careful planning and dedication."
Alternatives: "an optimal route to" or "the most effective way to".
A fault-tolerant routing protocol [11] using a greedy ACO routing mechanism chooses only a single best path to destination.
Averting a showdown is the best path to a bipartisan agreement on the alternative of censuring Mr. Clinton.
Still, he said, a college degree is the best path to a job — only 10 percent of those with diplomas are unemployed after four years, while 40 percent of those without diplomas are jobless.
CUNY's chancellor at the time, W. Ann Reynolds, tried unsuccessfully to get the Mayor to excuse students from workfare, contending that a college degree was the best path to a higher-paying job.
Doing a good job at work is the best path to a raise or to a better job.
As this example suggests, it is possible to distinguish between an optimizing strategy, which gives one the best path to a solution, and a satisficing strategy, which is the first acceptable solution one generates.
Colleague Don Lee wrote a piece in Tuesday's L.A. Times about a new Pew Research Center study, "The Rising Cost of Not Going to College," that finds getting a college education is still the best path to a financially successful life, the current economy notwithstanding.
The robot could figure out the best path to a point in a room, center itself in a doorway or grip a bomb on its own.
So while the real economic story is a little bit more nuanced, from an immigration perspective the best path to reduced immigrant inflows is lousy economic policy stateside.
But I believe experience teaches us that a trial is the best path to lead us out of this ordeal.
