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"work at best" is correct and usable in written English.
The phrase implies that something is working as well as it possibly can, or is the best that it can be. For example: "He tried his best to get the job done, but his efforts only worked at best."
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If he is employed, it's blue-collar work, at best.
This gave his work, at best, considerable grandeur.
The promises of job creation remain unfulfilled as plantation work at best offers menial low-paid jobs.
Meanwhile, buying out North Korea's missile programme, like its nuclear programme, will not work: at best North Korea will rent out a little restraint for a while.
She is remembered mostly as a "woman poet" who composed lilting, rhythmic, romantic verse and whose work, at best, is a kind of guilty pleasure, poetry that rhymes.
Far from a peaceful or exciting "sabbatical", maternity leave is hard work at best, and devastating to women's careers at worst.
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The judicial process works at best spasmodically; the rebels have taken over the tax collectors' job in some places.
If the plan works, at best it would transform Saudi Arabia into a technologically advanced society controlled by a slightly more tolerant religious autocracy.
Two slender books by William Styron, "Letters to My Father" and "The Suicide Run," released three years after his death, are "fugitive works at best, but they are not without value".
It looked like RIM's failed Playbook tablet and it worked, at best, like the low cost tablet it was.
An ad hoc cloud is proposed with data persistence model along with task allocation and load balancing system, which works at best granularity.
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