the height of
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—used to say that something is an extreme example of something
It was the height of stupidity to quit the team.
Long skirts are now the height of fashion.
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Magnetic activity on the sun is currently at a 23-year high because it’s reached solar maximum — the height of our star’s 11-year solar cycle.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
In terms of upside price targets after a breakout of this magnitude, a common technique is to take the height of the consolidation pattern and project that range to the upside.
—David Keller, CNBC, 24 July 2025
And during that decade of hoaxes—long after the height of his wrestling career—his image was used countless times for digital manipulations.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 July 2025
Aster’s conceit contrasts competing mayoral campaigns in the fictional town of Eddington, N.M., during the height of Covid panic in 2020 — that of Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) against the bid of the incumbent mayor, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
In terms of upside price targets after a breakout of this magnitude, a common technique is to take the height of the consolidation pattern and project that range to the upside.
—David Keller, CNBC, 24 July 2025
And during that decade of hoaxes—long after the height of his wrestling career—his image was used countless times for digital manipulations.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 July 2025
Aster’s conceit contrasts competing mayoral campaigns in the fictional town of Eddington, N.M., during the height of Covid panic in 2020 — that of Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) against the bid of the incumbent mayor, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal).
—Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
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