apex
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Living among apex predators could make you safer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
After being hunted to extinction a century ago, gray wolves are continuing their remarkable comeback story in California, with state wildlife officials reporting a modern record number of the apex predators in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The new wolf arrivals join a growing collection of apex predators at the park now available for public viewing.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Those findings highlight the ecological importance of both apex predators and small protected areas.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
Like the bedroom and bathroom, the study was squashed under the apex of the bungalow’s roof, and was little more than a corridor between the two, barely six feet long and five feet wide.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Stroll said: "The car was feeling good throughout the session. Q3 was really tricky, I had a few lock-ups and missed some apexes, but good enough for a top three."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
“But you’re busy, you’re consumed. Gone on the early years of just hitting the apexes and enjoying the speed.”
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2022
The result stands among the vertiginous apexes of film history, with Sewell’s editing providing the rhythmic emotion that cements the film’s status as one of the greatest of all time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
The average plant leaf grows from the plant’s apexes, or the tippy-tops of its stem and branches.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2021
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!
From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David
It also exhibits a remarkable asymmetric condition of the neural spines where they alternate from having transversely compressed apices to apices that are expanded to the right.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2013
The carbon atoms he figures at the apices of a hexagon, the benzene "ring."
From Time Magazine Archive
Width defined as maximum coronal dimension measured along line perpendicular to line defined by apices of paracone and metacone.
From Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan by Clemens, William Alvin
My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and large bunches between the steps, All below duly traveled, and still I mount and mount.
From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John
The Caudal Appendages exist as two very minute plates, with a few bristles at their apices.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing apex
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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