MOUNTAINTOPS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

mountaintops

noun

plural of mountaintop

as in summits

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Noun

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

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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

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Trucks and semis from all over the southwest came to Richmound, blaring horns and, in one case, ramming the new fence surrounding the school.

— Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
Automobile horns echoed here and there in the distance, and as the government railway train departed the station under the bridge, a string of small lights heralded the far-off clacking of its wheels.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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