summits 1 of 2

noun

plural of summit
as in pinnacles
the highest part or point a new movie that some enthusiastic reviewers are already calling the summit of cinematic achievement

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summits

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verb

present tense third-person singular of summit
as in ascends

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Recent Examples of summits
Noun
We are used to the street closures, the factory shutdowns, the restrictions on driving and internet access during Communist Party conferences, international summits, Tiananmen Square military parades, and the visits of foreign dignitaries. — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Beijing has long sought Taipei’s exclusion from international summits through diplomatic pressure. — ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026 Trump has also failed to hold the annual summits of the Quad, raising doubts that the United States is committed to that security partnership and to preventing Chinese dominance across Asia. — C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026 The Big Ten and SEC held a pair of conquer-the-world summits during the 2024-25 school year, seeming ready to direct the future of the sport. — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Hawaii, meanwhile, rightfully earns its place thanks to its dramatic terrain, with 25 active and dormant volcanoes—the most of any state in the study—as well as 543 waterfalls and Mauna Kea, one of the tallest mountain summits in the country. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026 But despite 45 years of summits and joint declarations, economic and political cooperation has generally lagged behind rhetoric. — Firmesk Rahim, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 The challenge involves climbing the highest summits in Scotland, England and Wales, Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, within 24 hours. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 July 2026 In the decades since, presidents have used Camp David to hold summits with foreign dignitaries and strategize during contentious moments of their tenures in the White House. — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for summits
  1. pinnacles
  2. ascends
  3. peaks
  4. scales
  5. heights
  6. tops
  7. culminations
  8. zeniths
Noun
  • Fourteen years earlier, his debut feature, Ossessione, had effectively birthed Italian neorealism, and Visconti had followed it up with La Terra Trema (1948), one of the absolute pinnacles of the movement.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Definition of pinnacles
Verb
  • But another frontier remains to be realized, one in which MU ascends from this fine plateau to make good on the sort of top-tier promise implied by the school’s now-enormous commitment to football.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Norway’s crown prince ascends to the throne after the death of his father, King Harald V.
    — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of ascends
Noun
  • The peaks are dark and snow-capped, the valleys deep and glacial.
    — Holden Frith, TheWeek, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Here, age-old traditions fuse with contemporary flavors, archaeological marvels meet modernist museums, rugged peaks are juxtaposed against verdant plains, and stretches of sandy shorelines lead to charming inland villages.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of peaks
Verb
  • As adoption scales from a pilot of a few hundred employees to thousands of AI agents running continuously across customer service, product data and supply chain workflows, token costs become a bigger deal.
    — Adrian Carr, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To quantify this effect, the team modeled the drop as a conducting sphere hovering over a conducting wall, then calculated how the field strength scales with distance.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of scales
Noun
  • The zoning change would be necessary to build a development of that scale because local zoning guidelines for the downtown area cap building heights at four stories.
    — Alexandra Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Now, 15 years later, Cook has catapulted the company to stratospheric heights by forging his own path.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of heights
Noun
  • Create your athleisure look with jackets, tops, sports bras, leggings and more, all boasting optimal coverage.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Some traders also claim Bitcoin’s recent good news could be short-lived, given the four-year cycle theory, which holds that Bitcoin’s bear market lows and bull market tops tend to occur in four year increments.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of tops
Noun
  • Lunar eclipses, on the other hand, tend to coincide with powerful culminations, emotional revelations and the release of something that’s reached its natural conclusion.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
  • Full moons are culminations — don’t forget to pause and see what’s already come full circle before rushing into more.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025
Definition of culminations
Noun
  • Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of zeniths

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“Summits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/summits. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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