as in pinnacle
the highest part or point
at the zenith of her career as a dancer
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Recent Examples of zenith
To that point, the job of an editor has evolved considerably since Graydon Carter, Anna Wintour and Tina Brown created the paradigm in the turn-of-the-century zenith of magazines.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Mercury opens the week with a move from Leo to Virgo, boosting the sign of the season to the zenith of their power.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 6 Sep. 2024
This unique color way evokes memories of classic dress and sports-chic watches from the 1960s, a period often regarded as the zenith of watch design.
—Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
In his sixth season at UConn, Hurley is at the zenith of his career, the top of the game, and in coaching, the mountaintop is where the footprints are permanent.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Mercury opens the week with a move from Leo to Virgo, boosting the sign of the season to the zenith of their power.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 6 Sep. 2024
This unique color way evokes memories of classic dress and sports-chic watches from the 1960s, a period often regarded as the zenith of watch design.
—Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
In his sixth season at UConn, Hurley is at the zenith of his career, the top of the game, and in coaching, the mountaintop is where the footprints are permanent.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zenith
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In some ways, saber teeth represent an evolutionary pinnacle, the optimal design for a canine tooth to puncture prey, says Rayfield.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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For 2025, the VW Tiguan, which has been the company’s top selling model since it was redesigned in 2018 to align with the Atlas, serves as a pinnacle of all those ideas and then, takes them a step further with true luxury features and an even more elevated, refined style inside and out.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Scores of other active projects would be discussed in other meetings, on other days—including museum spaces in Bilbao, Madrid, and San Diego, and a proposal for a tower in Riyadh that, at a height of two kilometres, would be more than twice as tall as any building ever built.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Quite frankly, Moicano is far from being at Makhachev’s lofty height.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Those turns on the throne have not been in a row, but rather spread across a number of years, as the smash surges back to the peak every holiday season.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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At the peak of the polio wave in the United States, in 1952, the disease sickened nearly 60,000 people, leaving more than 21,000 paralyzed and killing more than 3,000.—
Sheryl Gay Stolberg,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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These closing arguments were the culmination of six years of litigation on the key question in the 9/11 case: Does torture matter in the pursuit of justice in the military commissions?—
Lisa Hajjar,
The Conversation,
24 Jan. 2025
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The album was a culmination of years of hard work, intentional growth, and the trust SZA had built with her core fanbase.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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This year’s list lacks some of the sizzle of last year’s, even if several of the guys at the top of it ended up elsewhere.—
Joseph Person,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately, as tends to happen with private-detective work, my quotidian marital investigation has inadvertently led me to uncover a larger conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.—
Graham Techler,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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If that moment, following a victory over the Green Bay Packers, was the apex of his season, Monday night’s performance was the bottom.—
Alec Lewis,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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Mark King, reached the apex of their popularity with this album, which was a commercial smash in their native country.—
David Chiu,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Zenith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zenith. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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