apex

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

His work has helped people learn that the apex predators are around humans more often than once thought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

But at his career’s apex, Curry conveyed a novella’s worth of feeling through a flexible expressiveness that made him a theatrical force.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then, at the apex, the grass was thick again because no one sat there.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

“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

What do you think of a law that will take away a man's mine because it apexes on another man's claim?

From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

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

The region embraces a rough triangle, the apices of which are the modern villages of Lower Lake, Pope Valley, and Middletown.

From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Sherburne Friend Cook

The apices of the pyramidal perikarya are turned towards the free surface of the cortex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

In any event the American form T. abrupta Cke., with bifid apices, belongs here, and European specimens seem to show the identity of forms described by Karsten and De Bary.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride