apex
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Visibility at the apex of the sport can be vital to success at the high school and youth levels, which account for most of the 800,000 helmets sold each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The problem is that the Brazilian likes to drift and drop back into space, which leaves a gap at the apex of Manchester United's attack.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“I just don’t understand the stance that people think coyotes are evil when the reality is human beings are the evil apex predator on this planet,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Given that she stands at the apex of the Unification Church, and considering her position and role... a prison sentence is unavoidable," the court said in its ruling, Yonhap news agency reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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
Because the 16-hedroid is a symmetrical hyper-solid all of its eight apexes will be equidistant from the centre of a containing hyper-sphere, whose "surface" these will intersect at symmetrically disposed points.
From Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon
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
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Sepals are generally of a more or less oval, elliptical or oblong form, with their apices either blunt or 563 acute.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
In this form six triangles are cut on the top so that their apices meet in a point called the summit.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
In these instances most of the flowers were abortive, but a few were fertile, which he attributes to the dust of the apices having been wafted by the wind from other plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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