pinnacle
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The book, which recently featured as a major plot device in Mackenzie Crook's BBC comedy Small Prophets, is seen by experts as the "absolute pinnacle of ornithological art".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
With the demise of the Baselworld salon following the Covid-19 pandemic, Watches and Wonders in Geneva has established itself as the pinnacle showcase for watchmaking in Switzerland.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
He was also a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford—by some measures the pinnacle of British academic achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Even with his career at its pinnacle and before his back became chronically balky, Woods found his way onto tabloid headlines.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He fell in love with the fact that his Termites were at the absolute pinnacle of the intellectual scale—at the ninety-ninth percentile of the ninety-ninth percentile—without realizing how little that seemingly extraordinary fact meant.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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