crowning achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofcrowningandachievement

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crowning
adjective
uk
/ˈkraʊ.nɪŋ/us
/ˈkraʊ.nɪŋ/
A crowning event or achievement is the best or most ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofcrowningandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcrowning achievement

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Hiscrowningachievementis his demonstration of the role of time in our social construction of reality.
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Thecrowningachievementof the reformists, the 1990 law on money and credit, established the independence of the central bank.
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Probably thecrowningachievementof the politicians has been to provide rest rooms for the unemployed.
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That we carried this off here in such a short time was truly acrowningachievement!
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The budget chapter is, of course, thecrowningachievementof the accession negotiations.
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The first reason is that transplants are perceived as acrowningachievementof modern medicine.
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It was thecrowningachievementof those years.
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You talk about acrowningachievement, a historical decision, a milestone.
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They are thecrowningachievementof the resource accounting process.
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Will that not be thecrowningachievementof its recovery?
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I am saying that the establishment of a common currency and a common central bank is the ultimate objective and thecrowningachievementof economic unity.
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It does not seem at all likely that we will be able to bring this agreement off as acrowningachievement, if we can bring it off at all.
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Hiscrowningachievement, his works on numismatics (a mixture of erudition and nonsense) are significantly placed above his head.
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They also invented drama and produced masterpieces that are still reckoned as drama'scrowningachievement.
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This is thecrowningachievementin this hard-working and self-effacing scholars career.
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Completed in 2001, it has been called thecrowningachievementof his life's work.
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After several strong performances in the new facility, the program had itscrowningachievementin 2011.
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He considered the book to be hiscrowningachievement.
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The realcrowningachievementof the whole thing for me is the final track.
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