at the height of
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: at the most advanced or extreme point of (something)
He was at the height of his fame when he died.
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In her first book, Why Fish Don’t Exist, Miller weaves the story of her own life together with a telling about the work of David Starr Jordan, a taxonomist who spent his life discovering new species of fish (and who almost lost everything at the height of his career).
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Sarah Felbin, SELF, 20 Nov. 2024
During an appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, the Bronx native was asked how a producer as financially well-off as Storch was at the height of his career could fall into bankruptcy in such a short period of time.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Oct. 2024
In June 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd, calls to defund the police spurned discussions in Cinncinati over how to allocate public safety funds.
—Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
As for Ingram, the ad in question is a GoFundMe page created more than four years ago, at the height of the pandemic.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Sarah Felbin, SELF, 20 Nov. 2024
During an appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, the Bronx native was asked how a producer as financially well-off as Storch was at the height of his career could fall into bankruptcy in such a short period of time.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Oct. 2024
In June 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd, calls to defund the police spurned discussions in Cinncinati over how to allocate public safety funds.
—Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Oct. 2024
As for Ingram, the ad in question is a GoFundMe page created more than four years ago, at the height of the pandemic.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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“At the height of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20height%20of. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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