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copestones

noun

plural of copestone

as in high-water marks

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Noun

These areas have grown dramatically in recent years, creating new applications and needs for protective apparel, including FR tops and bottoms.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Keep scrolling to shop more lightweight tops from Amazon’s fashion department, including work blouses, polished T-shirts, and more.

— Brooke Knappenberger, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

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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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That momentum intensified into 2026 before reversing sharply in recent weeks, leaving the four stocks roughly 20% to 40% below their late-June peaks.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
Other factors could be driving down enrollment The Heritage Foundation’s Sheffield says that some of the drop in SNAP use is likely a natural decline after peaks in the pandemic era.

— Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 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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Bideau’s debut, 2022’s Fleeting Future, hinted at the explorations of Terra Incognita, its complex electroacoustic grids opening into ever-expanding crescendos.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Taking a cue from nickelodeon piano players, composer John Powell steers the mood with a vibrantly eclectic score of sprightly ragtime, violin pathos and popcorn crescendos.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

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