high-water mark

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Recent Examples of high-water mark The Weeknd reached a new high-water mark on Spotify this week. Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2023 How San Francisco settles the debate could reverberate throughout the reparations movement, setting a high-water mark for an effort that has been criticized for, so far, producing small sums. Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023 This year’s crop of competitors is a far cry from recent years when the starting roster has approached triple digits, hitting a high-water mark of 96 mushers in 2008 (though a more modest number, 78, crossed the finish line). Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023 In Paso Robles, dozens of makeshift encampments sprang up along roadways, above the Salinas’ high-water mark. Jeremy Miller, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for high-water mark
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Noun
  • Leitch was engaged by Rangers on two separate occasions but the red-brick facade on the Main Stand was the pinnacle.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Major League Baseball is the pinnacle of the sport.
    Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Aliyah Binford put Ole Miss ahead with a 2-out, solo home run to right-center field in the top of the first — her 12th of the season.
    Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, Bronze could be seen lying at the top of a blow-up slide before sliding down and joining his sister as dad Patrick helped from the sidelines with the activities while Brittany cheered them on.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The end of this series, and specifically Game 5, feels like their zenith.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • If dandyism is, at least in part, a kind of showy restraint—being seen on purpose without caring so much about how the spectacle is apprehended by others—this was something like its zenith.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • To prevent the display from looking boring, create visual contrast through elements other than color—just varying the height, size, shape, and texture of the objects will create an eye-catching vignette. 3.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
  • Yet arguably his greatest achievement was to raise the bar of the entire Premier League, pushing rivals like Manchester City to new heights in order for Pep Guardiola’s men to finish above Liverpool.
    Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • And so for me, this was really a deep dive into the culmination of my career.
    Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2025
  • For many, this represents the achievement of a lifelong goal—the culmination of years climbing the corporate ladder.
    Isabelita Castilho, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Bridgewater’s assets under management dropped 18% in 2024 to some $92 billion, Reuters reported in March, down from a recent peak of $150 billion in 2021.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 19 May 2025
  • How The Little Mermaid goes deeper with Halle Bailey's Ariel 'Little Mermaid' star Jodi Benson watches daughter perform as Ariel The tour ended with a sneak peak of the full production, notably also the first time the cast and crew has run through the entire show.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Crowds are understandably far thinner than during the apex of the excitement yesterday.
    Zoë Richards, NBC news, 9 May 2025
  • Logan and his younger brother, Jake Paul—himself a YouTuber and influencer, who has also turned to boxing—have been famous for more than a decade now, and reality television, Logan explains to Agdal, would be the apex of the pyramid that the siblings have been scaling.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2025

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“High-water mark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-water%20mark. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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