apex
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He adds: "We are particularly interested in investigating the environments they colonized and speciated in, especially in ecosystems dominated by large apex predators such as abelisaurids and megaraptorans."
From Science Daily • May 29, 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.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
And yet, these apex predators were hunted to extinction in England and Wales because of their perceived threat to livestock and grouse.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
The early 2020s marked the apex of a production boom known as “peak TV,” during which streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and HBO Max tried to add subscribers as fast as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing apex
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