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a state or time of great activity, thriving, or achievement
in its heyday, the circus was a major form of entertainment for small-town America
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Recent Examples of heyday
Sequences like the ambulance chase recall the heyday of Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Silver movies, which Berk and Olsen tried to emulate while putting their own spin on the genre via the film’s unconventional protagonist.
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
But recent population growth has been far below the heydays of the 1990s.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
During its heyday in the 2010s, Forever 21’s chief competitors were Swedish fashion retailer H&M and Zara, which is owned by the Spanish multinational retailer Inditex.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025
In its heyday, Intel’s profitability was unusually high for a manufacturing company.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2025
But recent population growth has been far below the heydays of the 1990s.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
During its heyday in the 2010s, Forever 21’s chief competitors were Swedish fashion retailer H&M and Zara, which is owned by the Spanish multinational retailer Inditex.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025
In its heyday, Intel’s profitability was unusually high for a manufacturing company.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heyday
Noun
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This garden favorite never fails to delight with vibrant, long-lasting blooms that attract an abundance of butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and other pollinators to the garden.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
21 Mar. 2025
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Whimsical yet opulent, the shell-like structure is adorned with 550 Baby Cashmere blooms and foliage crafted from Loro Piana’s classic Only Double cashmere.—
Denni Hu,
WWD,
19 Mar. 2025
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Scotty Bowman in his prime couldn’t have rescued this group from the abyss of not giving a crap after their own GM decided to break things up 20 games in.—
Arthur Staple,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Moseley stars as ‘Logan Marshall,’ a man in his prime; a rising political star and the Independent candidate in the upcoming Kentucky gubernatorial election.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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Bill Burr, who is making his Broadway debut in the starry revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross, opened up during a March 18 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about dealing with a particularly vocial audience member.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Established in 1875, the distillery has experienced periods of closure and revival, with its most recent reopening in 2008.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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But after 12 people underwent a 34-day hunger strike in 2015, the pinnacle of a yearslong protest by community leaders determined to keep a neighborhood school, the district reversed its decision.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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The pinnacle of prompt development entails a type of life cycle formalization akin to a rigorous systems development life cycle (SDLC), often noted as the PDLC (prompt development life cycle).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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