Play your role the best

Question

Is the following sentence correct

In an imperfect world with not-so-perfect people and institutions, you have to play your role the best you can, take as many as you can along with you, with empathy and a bit of loving detachment

When best is used as adverb, it is not preceded by the.
Example
He works best in the morning.
So I think the should not be used before best in the above sentence.
Am I right?

Upper_Case · Answer

You are correct, the sentence is not written properly. It would be more correct to say as best in this case.
However, this is an extremely common usage, despite being incorrect. Interactions with native English speakers and writers (at least those used to the U.S. style of English) will likely feature this kind of error often.

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