acme

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The 65-year gap between the song’s original release and its acme position is the longest in history, according to Billboard.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

“This will be the acme of Pax Sinica,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2022

There, conversation among thinkers fizzing with originality had its acme in a club founded in 1764 by the dictionary-maker Samuel Johnson and the portrait painter Joshua Reynolds.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019

But within the film’s logic, its 1999 is the Matrix, the delusion, the acme of all ideology.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

Like nearly everything else that was done in this marvelous century he represents the acme of successful endeavor in his special line down even to our own time.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)