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

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

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

If the acme begins in the evening, the remission on the next morning is either absent or very slight.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various