pinnacles

noun

plural of pinnacle
as in heights
the highest part or point a singer who has reached the pinnacle of success

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Recent Examples of pinnacles Set the scene The resort sprawls across 10,000 square meters of AlUla’s Ashar Valley, a broad swath of pale desert surrounded by otherworldly rock pinnacles. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 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 The human hand is one of three pinnacles of hominid evolution, along with the brain and the voice box. — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Bocas is blessed with more than a dozen excellent dive sites including underwater caves and pinnacles, reef walls, drift dive locations, and wrecks like the Barco Viejo and Mystic Wind. — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Though the top section of the Chimney Tops Trail (along with its rocky pinnacles) are closed due to fire damage, this is still one sight worth seeing. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 June 2026 Known for its volcanic pinnacles, an abundance of marine life, and healthy reefs, the Saba National Marine Park surrounds the entire island. — Hayley Domin, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2026 Still, the pinnacles of the heartland-rock canon continue to thrill us in unexpected ways. — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pinnacles
  1. heights
  2. tops
  3. peaks
  4. zeniths
  5. culminations
  6. apexes
Noun
  • The performance of total transparency could reach comical heights.
    — Alex Barasch, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Construction also has already begun on a second pad, LC-36B, for an even larger version of New Glenn, and with it a new vertical integration facility that can handle the new rockets’ heights.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of heights
Noun
  • In-store arrivals of see-through loose tops are up 30% in the US, per Heuritech.
    — Rachael Akhidenor, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The seating area features a mix of table sizes, ranging from those designed for solo travelers up to two-tops that can be pushed together for groups of eight (the former dining area is now part of the buffet seating).
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of tops
Noun
  • The Orionid meteor shower activity peaks when Earth travels through the densest section of the debris trail left by Comet 1P/Halley.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches with up to 10 inches along the highest mountain peaks.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of peaks
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
Definition of zeniths
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Using them lets the driver maximize engine power under varying driving conditions, such as accelerating in a straight line or blasting between apexes at a track or on a twisty road.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of apexes

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