What a turn of phrase: "arguably the greatest". Here's the quote from the NY Times:
"So it should be for the woman who appears to be moving on from the game after becoming arguably the greatest tennis player ever, male or female."
It is about Serena Williams. What is the rationale to qualify her accomplishments? It must be about how the greatest tennis players are measured.
Wikipedia has the answer with the 100 Greatest of All Time - a sports television series in 2012. It presented a list of 100 tennis players to be considered the greatest of all time, both men and women. They ranked 62 mean nd 38 women. But that was in 2012 where Serena was ranked 14 and Roger Federer was ranked 1.
Another article published in July 2022 says that Margaret Court of Australia with 24 major titles was "crowned by experts the best player of all time." That article had Serena Williams as number 2 with 23 major titles.
So if Serena gets 24 major titles, she would be "unarguably the greatest female tennis player of all time", I expect. Would they change the article to catch up with the facts?
"Arguably" is used when giving one's opinion to say that there are good reasons why something might be true. "Arguably the greatest hero we've ever seen. "
Would you like 159 more examples of this phrase in use? Go HERE. You can vote them up. Once you start to scroll through them, it deteriorates into a run of comedic "nonsense sentences." There must be more than 159 sentences.
My only experience with tennis is taking pictures of the Toronto Tennis Club quite a few years ago. This was one of the walls of the building and the walkway along the courts.
Wikipedia says: Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE, and sometimes known as 'roof-and-tunnel hacking') is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby...
I found a website that identifies urban exploring sites in Toronto here. However, as I scrolled through the list, so many of the abandoned buildings have been demolished and are gone.
Today's images might also capture urban components that will become lost. Our Piano Keyboard in the first image has been added to the loading dock in recent times and brings a sense of delight to a back alley. It could disappear quickly with graffiti or demolition to make way for grander buildings.
Our second image is a "preserved" painted billboard for Tip Top Tailors. It is located on Richmond Street West - you can see the 'suits and coats' quite well. I found a posting on it which says the building was once 5 stories with a small painted sign, and then become 6 stories, with the large sign painted over the first. As they have decayed, the original sign has shown through.
