at the height of
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: at the most advanced or extreme point of (something)
He was at the height of his fame when he died.
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Twenty-eight percent reported working fully remote — down from 70 percent in 2020, at the height of the pandemic — while 21 percent work on-site daily.
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Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
These were no youthful missteps corrected with time, but towering thinkers at the height of their powers overturning their own hard-won systems.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1795, at the height of Mexico’s colonial rule, the king of Spain granted the first license to distill agave wine, the period name for what’s now tequila, to the Cuervo family.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
Bad Bunny’s appearance will come a year after Kendrick Lamar headlined this past February, at the height of the rapper’s feud with Drake.
—Dan Rys, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2025
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Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
These were no youthful missteps corrected with time, but towering thinkers at the height of their powers overturning their own hard-won systems.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
In 1795, at the height of Mexico’s colonial rule, the king of Spain granted the first license to distill agave wine, the period name for what’s now tequila, to the Cuervo family.
—David Shortell, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
Bad Bunny’s appearance will come a year after Kendrick Lamar headlined this past February, at the height of the rapper’s feud with Drake.
—Dan Rys, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2025
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“At the height of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20height%20of. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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