pinnacle
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But why would anyone assume that a confident professional at the pinnacle of his field must have an oversize ego?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For the select list of comedians who have sold out the place, filling the arena is considered a pinnacle of achievement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Chey quaffed whiskey at a fried chicken restaurant last month with the gusto of two billionaires at the pinnacle of the world’s AI investment bonanza.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But now, returning to the tournament as reigning European champions, Spain have a squad that looks capable of returning them to the pinnacle of world football.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
All the other kids talked about qualifying for the Junior Olympics like it was the pinnacle of their fencing career.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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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
Thompson emphatically opened the past as a living resource while claiming one of the pinnacles of white, male Western culture for future use by others.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
It ended a 13-year marriage between two superstars who reached the pinnacles of football and fashion, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
If Carroll can somehow find a way to navigate the Seahawks past the 49ers on Saturday in the first round of the NFL playoffs, it would be one of the pinnacles of his career.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
There was the neck of land, the ledge skirting the rock, up there were the red pinnacles.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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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
In Belsize Square stands the Church of St. Peter, with a square pinnacled tower.
From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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
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
"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
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