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ne plus ultra

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That particular shop, sold to Bendel a decade ago or so before, had been the ne plus ultra of American bookstores.

Many of us occupy a world in which having your own hour on a cable channel is an all-consuming goal and the ne plus ultra.

Having a bride end the show suggested that the wedding gown was the ne plus ultra.

In the pantheon of self-destructive, shambolic, rock-star dandies, Johnny Thunders is the ne plus ultra.

Lamb fills his case, and lights this the ne plus ultra of a soothing weed.

On his return he again doubled cape Good Hope, which had long been regarded as the ne plus ultra of navigation.

This is but a bare outline of a most excellently developed story, in which realism has been carried to a ne plus ultra.

Villars vaingloriously styled his lines "Marlborough's ne plus ultra," a subject on which he was abundantly jocular.

He thinks the bar-mess the most fashionable assemblage in Europe, and the jokes of "grand day" the ne plus ultra of wit.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ne plus ultra, such as: extreme case, extremity, furthest point, highest point, limit, and nth degree.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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