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high-water mark

noun as in highest level

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They racked up some electoral wins, and at their high-water mark received 7.1% of the vote in 1989 European Parliament elections in West Germany.

If Hillquit’s mayoral campaign was close to a high-water mark for official American socialism, it was also the beginning of the end.

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They've come to see that moment of celebration after the inquests as their high-water mark.

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Trump's discredited audio-visual presentation of what he said was the systematic extermination of white Afrikaner farmers was the high-water mark of their lobbying efforts, amplified as they were in the Oval Office.

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It remains for me the high-water mark of Beckett acting.

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