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[ak-mee] / ˈæk mi /


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The 65-year gap between the song’s original release and its acme position is the longest in history, according to Billboard.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2023

“There is no blinking the obvious,” he wrote, “the Warners have pulled all the stops in making this picture the acme of the gangster-prison film.”

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2023

“This will be the acme of Pax Sinica,” he said.

From Washington Times Jan. 10, 2022

It suddenly feels like the acme of the Netherlands in the 1990s, ultimate expression of a certain kind of high-end brittleness.

From The Guardian Apr. 13, 2020

What then do they think of others, but precisely what they say—that all men are insane, fools, unholy, impious, transgressors, that they reach the very acme of misery and of all wretchedness?

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover




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