ne plus ultra
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The show’s executive producers include Jack Bender and Jeff Pinkner, two of the executive producers of “Lost,” the ne plus ultra of trapped-strangers stories.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022
The ne plus ultra, though, was the Bullocks Wilshire tea room.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
Here is a top-notch Italian bubbly and a sublime grower champagne that shows why that region is the ne plus ultra of sparkling wine.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021
“The days are over when getting on the cover of Vanity Fair was the ne plus ultra of public recognition. Now it’s more like the icing on the cake.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2019
That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba, and inscribe on it a ne plus ultra to us in that direction....
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
