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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

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The 1905 law explicitly mentions religious ceremonies, processions and other outdoor manifestations as subject to the ordinary rules governing public order.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of manifestations

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Skirts, tops and what looked like earrings made of layers of circle-cut chiffon, and light as air sheer jacketing suggested Anderson was looking to define his version of romance, a mood the French house has long-conjured during its history.

— Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Jersey tops start at about 400 euros; dresses range from 650 to 1,000 euros; jackets from 1,200 to 1,400 euros, and the most elaborate dresses top 2,000 euros.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of tops

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On a hot Saturday, Pawlikowski and I revisited those heights—the slopes from which, for almost four years, starting in the spring of 1992, Serbian artillery pounded Sarajevo, which lies vulnerably cupped in the valley below.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
But unlike the post-pandemic party shoe craze, many brands also kept versatility and comfort at the forefront, showing a range of heel heights and flats.

— Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 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

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Amid the ongoing loafer craze, the brand, best known for its men’s offering, is ready to court more women with its collection of comfortable classics.

— Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
And at twilight, New Orleans bandleader and composer Jon Batiste delivered a contagious tour-de-force of joy and struggle, careening from ragtime classics to contemporary numbers.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2026

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