acme
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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
“These reflect the infamous Sun Tzu quote, ‘the acme of skill is to win a war without firing a shot,’” Mr. McCreight wrote.
From Washington Times • May 24, 2023
While he took issue at the time with being labeled as a "male Carole King," Rundgren's double-album was released at the acme of the singer-songwriter era.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2022
There, conversation among thinkers fizzing with originality had its acme in a club founded in 1764 by the dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson and the portrait painter Joshua Reynolds.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019
I should like to print what, after long consultation, the five guides of Port Said—which is a place a half-mile across, and with which they were naturally acquainted—offered me as the acme of riotous dissipation.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding
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