crowning achievement

The conservancy’s crowning achievement was acquiring almost 1,000 square miles — about 580,000 acres — of desert land stretching from Barstow to Needles that had been owned by Catellus Development Corp., the real estate division of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad.

Kendrick Lamar brought his Compton hometown to New Orleans as the halftime performer at Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX — the crowning achievement of a yearlong stretch in which hip-hop’s most proudly cerebral star ascended to new heights of pop renown.

I’ve never been more grateful to receive such a preponderance of unsolicited messages, and that says a lot since speed-deletion skills are a crowning achievement of my decades-long career in journalism.

“Missionary” harks back to their crowning achievement together — the title gives it away.

It would appear so given that her comments, delivered just one month before the election, run in direct opposition to former President Trump’s crowning achievement: ending the constitutional right to abortion.