The Best (Has/Is) Yet To Come.

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Which is correct?


The best is/has yet to come.


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anonymous


Which is correct?


The best is/has yet to come.


Thanks

As far as I know, they both have the same meaning, but to judge by the Ngram Viewer results (see link), the version with "is" has been the unequivocal favorite for at least a hundred years.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=best+is+yet+to+come%2Cbest+has+yet+to+come&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbest%20is%20yet%20to%20come%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbest%20has%20yet%20to%20come%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cbest%20is%20yet%20to%20come%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbest%20has%20yet%20to%20come%3B%2Cc0

CJ

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They could both be correct.

What's the context?

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I don’t have context. I can across the sentence and both were used so I am wondering if context makes a difference?


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