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
A giant twist in the series’ penultimate episode, “The Garden,” came with the reveal that the crowning achievement motivating Deborah all season long, a sold-out Madison Square Garden performance, was a cruel illusion.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
The wall would be a crowning achievement of Blakeman’s tenure as county executive in Nassau.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025
“That is my crowning achievement: I let down an entire nation at one time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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
