pinnacle
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The Latino political firsts kept coming over the next 20 years, now reaching a pinnacle with Becerra’s win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
In his native Bangladesh, many had celebrated him as the successful product of a pressure-filled academic system that views the U.S. as the pinnacle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
PETERSBURG, Fla.—The Milwaukee Brewers’ improbable journey from baseball’s smallest market to the pinnacle of the sport began in the winter of 2018, when they made the trade that forever changed their fate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
The witch-queen, oldest of the Lilim, reined in the horses beside a pinnacle of rock the color of verdigris, which jutted from the marshy soil of the Barrens like a needle.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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More than 400 athletes from nearly 40 countries took part in this year's event, which organisers describe as "one of the pinnacles of the strength world".
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
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
If Carroll can somehow find a way to navigate the Seahawks past the 49ers on Saturday in the first round of the NFL playoffs, it would be one of the pinnacles of his career.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
Farther off there were others: peaks, pinnacles, black cindercones on the glacier.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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 buttresses of the choir follow the accepted forms of grace and effectiveness, and, while not numerous or remarkable as to size, each springs to a supporting pier gracefully pinnacled and gargoyled.
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
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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