crowning achievement
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In a career that has taken the former London transport boss around the world, delivering a new Penn Station, he says, would be his crowning achievement: “To me, this is the daddy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
It was designed by William Wyon, the Royal Mint's chief engraver for much of the 19th Century, and is regarded as his crowning achievement.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
The wall would be a crowning achievement of Blakeman’s tenure as county executive in Nassau.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025
And Chalamet has been hopping from New York to London to Brazil, touting “Marty Supreme” as his crowning achievement.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
It’s the famous quadratic formula, which is the crowning achievement of high-school algebra class.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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