peaked

• “According to the Twitter trend tracking site Twist (image above), use of the term peaked on Sunday morning and has since decayed.”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0

• “And then just the last question maybe for Ken: the 5.4% Building margin, do you think there's upside to that or has that in your term peaked?”

  Tutor Perini CEO Discusses Q3 2010 - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha

• “This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown.”

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1

• “Martin has an old-fashioned ring to it, and the numbers back up that impression -- the name peaked in 1964 and was especially popular in the Southwest, though O'Malley is a D.C. kid, born in '63.”

  The Washington Post: Tip To Candidates: Change Your Names

• “Ditto Brian (Moran): Our Brian was born in Massachusetts in 1959, but the name peaked in popularity in 1973, in Nebraska.”

  The Washington Post: Tip To Candidates: Change Your Names

• “Martin has an old-fashioned ring to it, and the numbers back up that impression--the name peaked in 1964 and was especially popular in the Southwest, though O'Malley is a D.C. kid, born in '63.”

  The Washington Post: Tip To Candidates: Change Your Names

• “Ditto Brian Moran: Our Brian was born in Massachusetts in 1959, but the name peaked in popularity in 1973, in Nebraska.”

  The Washington Post: Tip To Candidates: Change Your Names

• “Suakin peaked in prosperity during the boom years of the slave trade in the 19th century.”

  Wanderlustress:

• “Google says searches for that term peaked the week of September 25, days before Apple lovers learned that the new phone they were getting was, in fact, called the iPhone 4S.”

  CNN.com

• “Coined around 1900, the phrase peaked in usage during the middle of the 20th century and echoes still.”

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