Words similar to pinochle

Example sentences for: pinochle

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A number of years ago a Miami Beach politician earned linguistic immortality, locally at least, by announcing at a city commission meeting that he had achieved the pinochle of success.
At sometime, probably when he was a child or a young man, he had read the word pinnacle , figured out its pronunciation for himself, and forever after--although probably never using the word out loud--thought of it as pinochle .