Give the four numbers farthest from zero:

Take the two longest strings in a list:

Do the same using the operator form of TakeLargestBy:

Take the three largest Quantity lengths according to their distance to :

Take the three DateObject expressions with the largest day of the month:

Take the two longest strings in an association:

Give the four numbers farthest from zero, or as many as are available if fewer:

The discovery date value for some planets is missing:

By default, Missing[] and several other symbolic expressions are excluded if returned by the selection function:

Get the two largest elements by magnitude in a list:

Get the positions of the two largest elements by magnitude in a list:

Get the two largest magnitudes in a list:

Get the two largest elements by magnitude in a list along with their positions:

Get the two largest elements by magnitude in a list with their positions given first:

Get associations containing the element, position and Abs value of the two largest elements by magnitude in a list:

Take a few English words:

They can be translated to Spanish with WordTranslation, which gives a list of possibilities:

These are the largest two words according to canonical order:

These are the largest two English words according to canonical order of their Spanish translations:

Use properties to show simultaneously the English word and its translation to Spanish:

Construct a TabularColumn object with 100 words:

Select the five longest words:

Normalize the result to a list:

Find the four rows in a Tabular object with largest values in a given column:

Use general functional notation instead of the column name:

Take a dataset of the solar system planets:

Find the three planets with the largest number of moons:

Take a list of integer 3-vectors:

These are their norms:

Select the three vectors with largest norms, by default sorting numerically those norms:

Sorting the norms by canonical order can give a different result:

Find the eight capitals of continental US states that are farthest from Kansas City:

Find the five most recent James Bond movies:

Find the 10 countries with the longest names:

From the BRICS group of countries, give the country that is farthest from your location:

Find the four US states with the largest number of neighboring states, and show them:

Find the five constellations with largest number of bright stars, showing how many each one has:

TakeLargestBy[list,f,n,p] is effectively equivalent to Part[list,TakeLargest[Map[f,list]"Index",n,p]]:

TakeLargestBy[{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using NumericalOrder by default:

MaximalBy[{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using canonical Order by default:

Both TakeLargestBy and MaximalBy take an ordering function as fourth argument, which makes them effectively equivalent:

When there are common values of f[e_i] for different elements e_i in TakeLargestBy[{e₁,e₂,…},f,n], the original order will be kept:

If fewer than the requested number of elements are present, TakeLargestBy will not evaluate:

Use UpTo to get as many elements as possible:

If the f[e_i] are not comparable, TakeLargestBy will not evaluate: