apex
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Living among apex predators could make you safer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
On paper he may appear close to the apex of his power, having quickly recovered politically after losing seats in the 2024 general elections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
As apex predators, they keep the population of midlevel predators in check, allowing vegetation and other wildlife species lower on the food chain to thrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
At sound of this, the cry of Life plunging down from Life’s apex in the grip of Death, the fall pack at Buck’s heels raised a hell’s chorus of delight.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
“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 method of escape had been worthy of the best player in baseball, a 26-year-old already building a case as an all-timer, a two-time MVP still seeking — and reaching — new apexes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2018
The centre gable overlaps the portal beneath, and the apexes of the two side gables are beyond the middle of the two side portals.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
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
Peduncle, narrower, but generally longer than the capitulum; upper part encased with small calcareous scales, with their apices curved inwards, and overlapping each other.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Many species have the extreme apices of the segments pale, but with the apical integument so very thin, often looking nearly transparent and membranous, that its development would be very rapid.
From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders
The spermatia are expelled from the lacerated and fringed apices, and are very minute and colourless.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Vocabulary lists containing apex
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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