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as in lids
a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents
make sure the top is on the blender before you turn it on or you'll make a mess
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as in pinnacles
the highest part or point
a hawk's nest at the very top of the tree
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as in exceeds
to be greater, better, or stronger than
the next contender's javelin throw topped the reigning champion's and set a new world record
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
2 July 2026
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Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
2 July 2026
The Spruce,
30 June 2026
When asked what will be America's biggest challenge over the next 50 years, political division, along with economic affordability, tops the list.
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Fred Backus,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
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Noun
Here's exactly how to style red ballet flats with your favorite jeans and white tops like Zendaya, Dua Lipa, and a few other street style experts.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
2 July 2026
Best Vuori Tanks and Shirts Tank tops and T-shirts are slashed right now, including the AllTheForm Support Tank and the Halo Muscle Tank.
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Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
2 July 2026
Verb
For Brooke Addison, sustainable landscape designer and founder of Lark Haven Studio landscaping company in Seattle, woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) tops her list of go-to groundcover plants for shade.
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The Spruce,
30 June 2026
When asked what will be America's biggest challenge over the next 50 years, political division, along with economic affordability, tops the list.
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Fred Backus,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
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In an alternative universe, Pogačar too could have been donning one of its lids.
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Her eyes also boasted their usual liquid black wing with a metallic shimmer on the lids and a Gothic charcoal hue buffed in her waterline.
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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.
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The human hand is one of three pinnacles of hominid evolution, along with the brain and the voice box.
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When demand exceeds supply every night, the process starts to break down.
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Schwarzschild found a point around a body with mass at which the escape velocity, the speed needed to escape the gravitational grip of that body, exceeds the speed of light.
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Featuring a perspective not often seen on book covers, and the perfect balance of image and text.
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Today, the public largely remembers Holmes through magazine covers, courtroom sketches, documentaries, and television dramatizations.
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The diversity of plant heights mimics what’s found in a forest and, as a bonus, offers better wildlife habitat.
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Still, the stock market continues to test new heights and is expected to tempt private equity owners and other investors to get out while the getting’s good.
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Since then, Lebanese health authorities say more than 4,250 people have been killed — a toll that surpasses the war deaths in Iran but in a country 16 times less populous.
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The borough jails won't be ready and Rikers' current population of about 6,700 inmates surpasses the 4,100-bed capacity of the new facilities.
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The bill also created new caps for federal loans for both professional and graduate students.
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The bill also established new borrowing caps for parents and graduate students who take out loans, and imposed new restrictions for Pell Grants, among other measures.
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The campground offers hiking, backpacking, wildlife viewing and fishing amid towering mountain peaks, alpine lakes and dense forest.
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Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead.
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“Tops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tops. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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