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summit

noun as in top, crowning point

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If you’re summiting a peak on Sunday, that’s the day to eat instant oatmeal for breakfast and dinner from a freeze-dried, heat-and-eat bag.

After departing from Springer Mountain in northern Georgia on July 7, she reached the summit of Maine’s Mount Katahdin 51 days, 16 hours, and 30 minutes later.

Storz and colleagues captured several yellow-rumped leaf-eared mice, including the summit-topping one, plus mice from three other species from a range of high altitudes, the team reports July 16 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

However, networks seem to be nearing the point at which they will shift their weight from the traditional TV mountain in order to scale streaming’s summit.

From Digiday

The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second—equivalent to about a million laptops.

It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.

Mark your calendar for the global summit, April 22 to 24 in NYC!

To whet your appetite, you can relive that glorious moment (and watch other programs from the 2014 summit) here.

The next time all the presidents from North and South America meet will be at the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April.

Three days later he was in Switzerland, and a few days later again he was on the summit of a minor but still difficult peak.

At last he came to quite a hill, on the summit of which grew a tree with branches close to the ground.

It was held to be certain death to climb to its summit, and foolhardy in the extreme to go far up its sides.

He swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.

A moment later the road led up a hill-side, and at the summit she caught his bridle and reined in.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to summit, such as: acme, apex, apogee, capstone, climax, and crest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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