acme

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The 65-year gap between the song’s original release and its acme position is the longest in history, according to Billboard.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

“These reflect the infamous Sun Tzu quote, ‘the acme of skill is to win a war without firing a shot,’” Mr. McCreight wrote.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2023

“I devote myself to the acme of emptiness,” says another.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021

But within the film’s logic, its 1999 is the Matrix, the delusion, the acme of all ideology.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

What then do they think of others, but precisely what they say—that all men are insane, fools, unholy, impious, transgressors, that they reach the very acme of misery and of all wretchedness?

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)