greatest thing since sliced bread
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Sure, AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we probably don’t need 100 gigawatts of toasters paid for with datacenter-collateralized debt guarantees from toaster manufacturers—today’s circular deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Brown says: "I thought: 'All right, everyone tells me he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, maybe I can help.'"
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Your character Mo has to believe that Zeke is the greatest thing since sliced bread, even though any grownup looking at him would see that guy's the biggest mess on the world.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2020
"Whoever he's playing that week is the best team he's seen on tape all year, the greatest thing since sliced bread," Cowher said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2018
This may sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there is a catch called metric conversion.
From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol
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