pinnacle

José Mourinho had spent two decades at the pinnacle of soccer building a reputation as a serial winner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

Fernandez highlighted that when softball was added to the Olympics in 1996, it was the pinnacle of the sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

"It's tough whenever you get so close to reaching one of pinnacles of career and it's taken away," added the Bayern Munich striker, who is set to win his 99th cap for his country.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

The juniors appear to have risen to their career pinnacles.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

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

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

He represented the university in Parliament, and the lofty square and pinnacled tower of this printing-office is one of the most conspicuous objects in Cambridge.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

"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