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noun

acme

the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

In a sentence

Six example sentences with acme, each labelled with its topic.

  • Critics still treat those ceiling frescoes as the acme of the workshop, and nothing painted afterward matched them.

    Art

  • She hit her acme at twenty-nine, running times that season she never approached again in eight further years.

    Fitness

  • That expansion was the acme of the series; every release since has borrowed from it without improving anything.

    Gaming

  • The cathedral's west front is often called the acme of the Gothic style, with every later church a step down.

    Architecture

  • That seventy-two win season remains the acme of the franchise, and no roster since has come within ten games.

    Basketball

  • The mainframe era reached its acme in the late seventies, just before cheap microprocessors began eating its market.

    Technology

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