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high-water mark

noun as in highest level

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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.

“It’s still the high-water mark for a heavy electric guitar over a dance-pop beat,” Ronson says of Jackson and producer Quincy Jones’ crack at creating a rock song for the world-conquering “Thriller” LP.

The most recent high-water mark for best picture box office was in 2023, when, for the first time, more than one contender grossed over $1 billion globally.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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