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n. - The point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above

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  • Noun : He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity
  • It surprised him that they had stuck in his memory, like flotsam left at a freak tidemark.
  • He walked along the tidemark and searched for the smooth fist-sized stones he preferred for hunting rabbits.
  • Driving from Tuzla in BiH to Bijeljinja in Republika Srpska, for example, brings you to what is almost a tidemark of wrecked homesteads and minefields.
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