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crowning achievement

NOUN
success story
Synonyms
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Meisterstuck best seller bull's-eye chef d'oeuvre classic coup crowning accomplishment crowning stroke feather in one's cap grand slam hole in one home run icing on the cake masterpiece masterwork showpiece smash hit work of a master work of a past master

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Or will the 2025 Masters go down as his final, crowning achievement?

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

Walt Disney Concert Hall, which was built for and by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and opened in 2003 was, of course, his crowning achievement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 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