pinnacle
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India then defeated South Africa in the final to reach what many regard as the pinnacle of achievement in the history of Indian women's cricket.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
A celebrated army soprano and national household name, Peng helped burnish Xi’s public profile as he reached the pinnacle of power in late 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The pinnacle of that effort was a massive contract with Swiss marketing giant ISL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Now, imagine all that delirium, sign-waving and call-in voting was in service of pushing Art Garfunkel to the pinnacle of the premier music video countdown.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Miss Preston was convinced that the best way to correct minor misconduct was a little drudgery, and housework was the pinnacle of drudge.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
The fire sequences alone, captured in the hellish fuzz of Pål Ulvik Rokseth’s cinematography, are pinnacles of this practical-meets-digital-effects discipline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025
"It's tough whenever you get so close to reaching one of pinnacles of career and it's taken away," added the Bayern Munich striker, who is set to win his 99th cap for his country.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
The juniors appear to have risen to their career pinnacles.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
To the right there were rocky pinnacles, one or two of them with snow clinging to the ledges.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
Oak Flat is a cactus-covered, sun-baked landscape of pinnacled rock formations and Native American archaeological and burial sites, home to a plethora of plants and animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
“I felt like the Last Man … left pinnacled in mid-heaven.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2016
Mr. Kelley “is doing something quite wonderful,” Mr. Tuggle said while showing a visitor around a pinnacled sideboard piled with vessels in orchid, dogwood, iris and nasturtium motifs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2013
“Said to be most expensive set ever made in America at that time,” he wrote on the label for one pinnacled chair, listing its original home as a mansion in Yonkers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2013
A pinnacled precipice rose suddenly to bar their way.
From Shock Treatment by Stanley Mullen
She had guarded her memory of him so tenderly, weaving a thousand extravagant tales about him, pinnacling him above all men, her hero, her knight, her preux chevalier.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
"I will!" said Sammy Durgan with a sudden pinnacling of determination—and he sprang to his feet.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
She pointed, still smiling, to the purple clouds now pinnacling the west, and said that it was time to be going homeward.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
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