aiguilles

noun

plural of aiguille
as in pinnacles

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  1. pinnacles
  2. summits
  3. horns
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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  • Trump met with Kim three times during his first term, including two summits, but those meetings failed to produce an agreement on his goal of denuclearization.
    — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • To that end, the United States, in collaboration with close international partners, should launch a series of global biosecurity summits modeled on the four international nuclear security summits that took place from 2010 to 2016.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of summits
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  • Train horns are intended to promote safety at railroad crossings.
    — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Trucks and semis from all over the southwest came to Richmound, blaring horns and, in one case, ramming the new fence surrounding the school.
    — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
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