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pinnacle

[pin-uh-kuhl] / ˈpɪn ə kəl /


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They had shaped philosophies, lifted trophies, and reached the pinnacle of the modern game.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“It represents the pinnacle of luxury living, privacy, and security,” she shared.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

For the select list of comedians who have sold out the place, filling the arena is considered a pinnacle of achievement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

That segment has largely gone unserved after Boeing halted plans to replace its popular 757 and 767 at the pinnacle of the 737 MAX crisis, which followed a pair of crashes in 2018 and 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

Switching Leah’s and Nick’s genders is like the pinnacle of Dad-humor.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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

The juniors appear to have risen to their career pinnacles.

From Seattle Times Aug. 10, 2023

At its narrowest point, Aonach Eagach has a row of jagged pinnacles.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2023

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

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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 next day, she crept up under the pinnacled heights of Peñon de Coron in a jade-green sea, and entered the channel between Coron and Bushuanga.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

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

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

"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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