pinnacle
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While several Rwandans told AFP of their pride that their country will soon host the pinnacle of motor sports, Kigali entrepreneur Amon Niyigena, took a more pragmatic view.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
India then defeated South Africa in the final to reach what many regard as the pinnacle of achievement in the history of Indian women's cricket.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Nike was the pinnacle of cool in China in the 2000s, when the brand was known for outfitting top National Basketball Association stars such as LeBron James and Bryant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The pinnacle of that effort was a massive contract with Swiss marketing giant ISL.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He felt that he was living upon a high pinnacle where bracing winds whipped about him.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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Privately, those at Liverpool during the time, including Firmino, were aware that the competition between Salah and Mane helped them reach their personal pinnacles.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
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
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
The spectacularly fluted ice pinnacles of Thamserku and Kusum Kangru pierced the sky more than two vertical miles above.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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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 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
"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
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