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pinnacle

[pin-uh-kuhl] / ˈpɪn ə kəl /


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As Emma Raducanu plots a route back to the pinnacle of tennis, the Briton has been taking inspiration from Andre Agassi's 2009 autobiography.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

“It represents the pinnacle of luxury living, privacy, and security,” she shared.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

For the first time in his life he had gained a pinnacle of feeling upon which he could stand and see vague relations that he had never dreamed of.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

More than 400 athletes from nearly 40 countries took part in this year's event, which organisers describe as "one of the pinnacles of the strength world".

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 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

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

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they each announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of fashion and football.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Farther off there were others: peaks, pinnacles, black cindercones on the glacier.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

"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

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




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