copestones

Definition of copestonesnext
plural of copestone

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Noun
  • Today’s new wave of halter tops feels grown-up and refined, reimagined in sleek, streamlined shapes that have become fixtures everywhere from the runway to the red carpet — and across the vacation wardrobes defining Euro-summer style.
    Lauren Fisher, Footwear News, 30 May 2026
  • His 234 wins placed him as tops in his field.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • The theater, declared a landmark in 1988, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • Canyonlands National Park The desert landscape of Canyonlands National Park is marked with towering rock pinnacles, remote canyons, and Indigenous American rock paintings.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Rising from the Mediterranean, this little isle, full of dramatic peaks and grottoes, has been tempting travelers for 2,000 years.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026
  • Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • After all, exits and grand finales are part and parcel with any theater and therefore any showgirl's life, and could be purely symbolic in nature.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From Stonewall’s 1969 uprising to today’s golf tournaments, human rights summits and bar crawls, Pride events in Los Angeles, New York and global cities mix festival energy with defiance.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026
  • More than 7,560 people have made it to the top in almost 14,000 total summits as of December 2025.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Trump convincing the Ellisons to make a new installment of Rush Hour, whose broad racial humor might have been unwelcome a few years ago (if not much earlier), may be one of the capstones of his cultural influence as president this time around.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.
    Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The tag team has led to the band’s best collection where super sharp hooks meet ugly, glorious crescendos and curious arrangements.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Copestones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copestones. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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