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pinnacle

[pin-uh-kuhl] / ˈpɪn ə kəl /


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For all the delays and frustrations that have plagued this rivalry over the past decade, Fury against Joshua remains the pinnacle of domestic boxing.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The exhibition reaches a pinnacle of complexity in the section “Growth Systems,” its central arrangement a pointed fusion of nature and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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

And a pair of sun-white whale ribs arched over our doorway, a tarnished ship’s bell hanging from their pinnacle.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

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

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

It ended a 13-year marriage between two superstars who reached the pinnacles of football and fashion, respectively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

The canopy is of square form, flanked by buttresses pinnacled on their faces, and the groining within shews five fan-traceried pendants.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers

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

"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




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