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crowning

/krou-ning/US // ˈkraʊ nɪŋ //UK // (ˈkraʊnɪŋ) //

加冕,加冠,加顶,加冕礼

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : representing a level of surpassing achievement, attainment, etc.; supreme: crowning accomplishment.
    • : forming or providing a crown, top, or summit: a crowning star on a Christmas tree.

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Examples

  • Such signals helped reveal the physics of the standard model, a crowning achievement of science that describes the particles and forces of nature.

  • The truncated season could be completed with the crowning of a deserved champion despite the pandemic, but every single element of it would be defined by the pandemic.

  • Joe Montana took Kansas City to the playoffs but fell short of a crowning moment.

  • Eleventh place is quite the crowning achievement for the little isthmus—especially considering the low quality offerings.

  • Freak Show, then, by its very name should be his crowning achievement.

  • He used his signature “big splash” move to beat Hulk Hogan in Wrestlemania VI, crowning him the champion of the WWF.

  • Which books by other authors do you think are crowning examples of social-observation fiction?

  • But a few years of retirement brought Washington back to his beloved Mount Vernon, with its year-crowning Christmas cheer.

  • Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, made lord chancellor in consideration of his services in crowning king John.

  • It may be an idle fancy, but if that string is not a woven strand from some womans crowning glory, then I have no discernment.

  • And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much thought upon and talked of.

  • That crowning distinction seems to have been reserved for the age of Anne and the first sovereigns of the house of Brunswick.

  • No modern writer has written more enthusiastically of what he considers the crowning excellence of the Greek philosophy.