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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Additionally, the company said there are currently more artists earning over $100,000 a year from Spotify alone than were getting stocked on shelves at the height of the compact disc era.
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
In the 1990s, Weeks was a Corning vice president tapped to run a new optical fiber business to power the burgeoning internet—an innovation that drove Corning’s valuation to nearly $100 billion at the height of the internet bubble in 2000.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
The original Help album, released at the height of the Britpop craze, included an instrumental track from Blur.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
Back in 1994, at the height of his fame, Rainey opened up to PEOPLE about his controversial persona.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
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Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
In the 1990s, Weeks was a Corning vice president tapped to run a new optical fiber business to power the burgeoning internet—an innovation that drove Corning’s valuation to nearly $100 billion at the height of the internet bubble in 2000.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
The original Help album, released at the height of the Britpop craze, included an instrumental track from Blur.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
Back in 1994, at the height of his fame, Rainey opened up to PEOPLE about his controversial persona.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
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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 Feb. 2026.
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