pinnacle
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In another, two federal special agents witnessed "a glowing orange orb... perched close to a rock pinnacle."
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
He was also a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford—by some measures the pinnacle of British academic achievement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
It’s this exposé of societal absurdity and Meursault’s atheistic refusal to play along with pacifying notions of sin and redemption, that makes“The Stranger” a pinnacle of confrontational literature.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
For Wiseman, the "pinnacle moment" was when his team named a lunar crater after Wiseman's late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
All the other kids talked about qualifying for the Junior Olympics like it was the pinnacle of their fencing career.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Vocabulary lists containing pinnacle
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