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peaking

verb as in reach highest point

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If she runs in 2016, her prescient advocacy for early-childhood education might be peaking at just the right time.

But the Telugus, peaking early, knew their glory was behind them.

If the flames of separatism in Punjab seemed to be simmering, the secessionist strife in Kashmir was just peaking.

Since peaking at $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2009, the annual deficit has fallen by more than half.

A very sharp incline in the 1990s, peaking at about 5,000 in March 2000, then a sharp decline before a steady incline.

Of course; for how could he go down head-foremost, without peaking his tail in the air?

Perquisites with him are spiffs, and remnants of cloth peaking, or cabbage.

Of course; for how could he go down headforemost, without peaking his tail in the air?

A beautifully wrinkled mass of green and blue and gray;—a strangely abrupt peaking and heaping of the land.

"Peaking" was strictly forbidden when the twins were engaged in Skull and Crossbones activities.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peaking, such as: climax, crest, culminate, come to a head, be at height, and reach the top.

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

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