top out
phrasal verb
topped out; topping out; tops out
: to reach the highest amount or level and stop increasing
—often + at
Interest rates are expected to top out at 15 percent.
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Highs will top out in the middle 40s.
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Steven Sosna, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
Curet threw a sinker that topped out at 98 mph in his final appearance of 2025, in addition to a cut fastball and a four-seamer.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
On New Year’s Day, the trip culminates with an excursion on the Jungfrau Railway, an iconic route that tunnels through the Eiger mountain and tops out at Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe at 11,332 feet in elevation.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
The Metrodome years topped out at 60,985 in 1985; and the Huntington Bank Stadium high is 52,355 in 2015.
—Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
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Steven Sosna, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
Curet threw a sinker that topped out at 98 mph in his final appearance of 2025, in addition to a cut fastball and a four-seamer.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
On New Year’s Day, the trip culminates with an excursion on the Jungfrau Railway, an iconic route that tunnels through the Eiger mountain and tops out at Jungfraujoch, the highest railway station in Europe at 11,332 feet in elevation.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2025
The Metrodome years topped out at 60,985 in 1985; and the Huntington Bank Stadium high is 52,355 in 2015.
—Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2025
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“Top out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top%20out. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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