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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The move would raise total duties on imports from China to around 130% – effectively a trade embargo and just shy of the 145% peak reached at the height of the trade war this spring. John Liu, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025 Nvidia and OpenAI, for example, recently announced a partnership that aims to build 10 gigawatts of data centers, equivalent to the power consumed by New York City at the height of summer. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025 The show still attracts an older crowd, who grew up at the height of ABBA fever in the 1970s. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025 Made at the height of her fame, this attempt at more dramatic material – the Jekyll-and-Hyde tale told from the perspective of the good doctor’s Irish maid, who begins to discover his secret — almost killed Roberts’s career. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for at the height of

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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 22 Oct. 2025.

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