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acmes

noun

plural of acme

as in pinnacles

the highest part or point the acme of their basketball season was their hard-won victory over last year's state champs

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as in manifestations

the most perfect type or example a movie that has come to be regarded as the acme of the Hollywood musical

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Noun

Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
The Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of pinnacles

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Sports are in the midst of a global makeover from narrow manifestations of tribal interest to mainstays of the monoculture.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of manifestations

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Beyond coffee, Gottsman said candidates should avoid other distractions or unprofessional impressions by putting away their phones, skipping overpowering fragrances, removing sunglasses from the tops of their heads and avoiding chewing gum.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
That roof and the Nugget Twin it tops have officially launched to give Nugget buyers a new winter-ready camper van option with four solid walls and space for four people.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tops

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Resident Evil has hit the ground running in its box office opening as the reboot reaches unprecedented heights for the franchise.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
The most challenging aspect of her decision was the timing — stepping away as the team reaches new heights in terms of chemistry and momentum.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of heights

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This mythologizing of a masculine, European (though crucially not British) version of Columbus supported burgeoning American ideals of Manifest Destiny (the idea that the United States was preordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and beyond).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
These unspool in the form of action scenes where the stakes aren’t just personal safety, but the larger ideals of a nation under political suppression.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of ideals

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Lunar eclipses, on the other hand, tend to coincide with powerful culminations, emotional revelations and the release of something that’s reached its natural conclusion.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
Full moons are culminations — don’t forget to pause and see what’s already come full circle before rushing into more.

— Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025

Definition of culminations

Noun

Across the week-long trip, Clooney’s wardrobe comprised of all her classics.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026
Besides the several covers of ‘90s-era pop music classics by the likes of INXS and Tina Turner, composer Nathan Matthew David has contributed an original soundtrack incorporating traditional Filipino and Indigenous instruments.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 20 Sep. 2026

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