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  • Four years later, in 1987, Brown was at the height of his powers in Sacramento.
    — Lincoln Mitchell, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Predictably, though, even at the height of wartime patriotism — pace Goldwyn — audiences grew weary of a cinematic diet of non-stop lectures.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The couple tied the knot in 1999, at the height of their careers.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The next year, at the height of the pandemic, the rate jogged upward for the first time in decades to 9.3%.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • A lot of tasks are at the height of a human standing, right?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There was that question: Why did the band break up at the height of their powers?
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That is the first year-over-year decline since fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
    — Jean Eaglesham, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Just keep in mind the mountains tend to get crowded at the height of ski season.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That was more than a generation ago at the height of Japan’s post-war boom.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Even at the height of his early success, in the ‘50s, Mr. Bennett had never been hip.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • But for many young people who started vaping at the height of the trend, a habit was set.
    — John Daley - Colorado Public Radio, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
  • That goes down to the details, like how the light wooden bar sits at the height of a standard kitchen counter with a blue-tile backsplash.
    — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 10 May 2024
  • The opening titles were designed by the artist Keith Haring at the height of his fame.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The image appears to be a photoshoot outtake of the star captured at the height of her fame.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2023
  • Located in the heart of New Orleans, the event is always at the height of summer and the heat is nothing to be played with.
    — Celeste Polanco, Essence, 2 July 2024
  • The film follows a group of amateur stock traders who take on the titans of Wall Street at the height of the pandemic in 2021.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • This is odd and unexpected at the height of the laying season.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Booking Jennifer Lopez at the height of the Jennaissance and pairing her with Shakira ought to do the trick.
    — Staff Author, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The type of content on the app began to shift in the summer of 2020, at the height of the social justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But seeing Taylor at the height of her career, on her biggest tour?
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The couple met in the early 1990s, when Crawford was at the height of her modeling career.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Several women have said Simmons raped them at the height of Def Jam’s success in the 1990s.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Travelers should be advised to bring a sleeping mask — at the height of summer, the sun stays up until the middle of the night.
    — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2023
  • As a millennial, I was overexposed to neon tinted green at the height of the Y2K era.
    — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 19 July 2024
  • Kesha wrote her new album, Gag Order, at the height of the pandemic.
    — Kayla Blanton, SELF, 20 June 2023
  • Peaches are at the height of summer perfection right now.
    — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • That stretch kept DeSoto — then at the height of its powers — away from a state championship.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • On the wall adjacent to the rack was a large painting of James Brown and the Famous Flames at the height of their powers, circa 1964, judging from the outfits.
    — Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In the mid 1960s, at the height of the painting-is-dead delusion, Brice Marden painted himself into a corner.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • More than half of IRS employees would face furloughs at the height of tax filing season.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024

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