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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acclaimed best" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is highly praised or recognized as the best in a certain category, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The film was acclaimed best for its innovative storytelling and stunning visuals."
Alternatives: "widely regarded as the best" or "highly praised as the best."
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The quarterly online journal Holdfast Magazine was acclaimed best magazine/periodical.
In Salon earlier this month, Laura Miller called this year's nominees — which include Téa Obreht's acclaimed best seller, "The Tiger's Wife," alongside four more typically obscure works — further proof that the National Book Awards have become "a Hail Mary pass on behalf of 'writer's writers' " rather than a useful guide for the general public.
This year's awards race has already seen a significant casualty in The Sessions (£212,00 to date), which has struggled to attract upscale viewers at a time when competition includes Lincoln, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty and other highly acclaimed best picture Oscar nominees.
John Humphrys was at the top of his game on the Panama Papers on Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, but for some reason it was another exchange, about acclaimed best selling game Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, that caused a social media followup.
He knows that for writers, as a Tobias Wolff character put it, "there is no such thing as an exemplary life," but an unyielding regime of running and early nights is what's enabled him to keep churning out critically acclaimed best sellers.
In 2000, Costas wrote the critically acclaimed best selling book Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball.
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Mr. Green also presided over the breakthrough of Ross Macdonald from modestly selling mystery writer to highly acclaimed best-selling novelist.
A highly regarded industry thought-leader in data analytics, Piyanka Jain is an internationally acclaimed best-selling author, frequent keynote speaker on using data-driven decision-making for competitive advantage at both corporate leadership summit as well as business conferences.
The 2015 list is created by Bryan Burrough, author of the 2009 acclaimed best-seller Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco and most recently Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.
A highly regarded industry thought-leader in data analytics, Piyanka Jain is an internationally acclaimed best-selling author and a frequent keynote speaker on using data-driven decision-making for competitive advantage at both corporate leadership summit as well as business conferences.
His critically acclaimed best-seller,Live From Death Row, humanized death row from the inside and exposed its racist character.
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