Most in a sentence as an adjective

* More broadly, the best and most creative work comes from a root of joy and excitement.

Heck, they're giving you free live-fire practice for your next interview, make the most out of it.

Even now, they're unknown with almost no traffic and engagement.

Maybe Jeff is too far down the rabbit hole to realise this, but most people don't know what programming even looks like.

You devote time and energy to a technology only to have it fail when you need it most.

From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money.

But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases.

I'm not saying that lightly, I worked for a dozen startups, a couple of which crashed hard in the most gut wrenchingly painful way you could imagine.

The pay is usually better and it's a natural career progression most organizations are built around.

Additionally, it is quite plausible that Paypal could demonstrate that success is a curse to new businesses and most which blow up proceed to, well, blow up.

Most in a sentence as an adverb

We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines.

The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls.

Think of it this way: had your company been successful, it almost certainly would have left you in a state where you'd be working for someone else for a couple years during your earnout.

Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work.

The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves.

It seems that they go a few directions:The most common seems to be to try and generalize, because relearning most of your job skills every few years starts to get annoying the 20th time you've had to do it.

And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw.

One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.

You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a **** about your day.#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work.

Most definitions

adjective

(superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number; "who has the most apples?"; "most people like eggs"; "most fishes have fins"

adjective

the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree; "made the most money he could"; "what attracts the most attention?"; "made the most of a bad deal"

adverb

used to form the superlative; "the king cobra is the most dangerous snake"

adverb

very; "a most welcome relief"

adverb

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees"

See also: about almost nearly near nigh virtually well-nigh