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What is an acme?

What is an acme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. [c. 1610]
  2. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
  3. Mature age; full bloom of life.
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He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
Her face contorted into an animalistic snarl, her muscles tensed, her concentration rose to a new acme, her blood raced, her hair stood on end, and her teeth gnashed together.
But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
To do that for the sake of corporate stout-heartedness is, I think, the acme of what Aristotle meant by virtue.
This was status wear and power-dressing combined – the acme of sexiness, designed to giftwrap the body.
Whether he has plummeted, reached the acme or is in a spiritual limbo is for him to decide.

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