best-selling
- a word derived from bestseller.
Example Sentences
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“Two years after we filed, the settlement for our class-action lawsuit got final approval,” Andrea Bartz, best-selling author and one of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a post on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
One reason: As Fred Brock of the New York Times pointed out a generation ago in his best-selling book, most of us can retire on much less than we think.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But BYD’s lower-cost, high-range models have made it the best-selling global EV brand.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Every new nation requires a new set of legends, and in the U.S. these were provided by Washington Irving, “America’s first bona fide best-selling author,” in the words of one biographer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Maeterlinck and Marais wrote best-selling books on the presumed soul that must exist somewhere in the nests of ants and termites.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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