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apogee

noun as in pinnacle

Strongest match

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Vital questions remain about whether the rocket engine can deliver enough power for the craft to reach apogee when fully loaded.

As it falls from apogee, Unity uses a unique shuttlecock-like action to flip, on re-entry, from high speed flight to glide back to a landing.

Congress must act swiftly to pass the Judiciary Act of 2021, the only way to effectively expand the court and restore balance and trust to the apogee of our democracy.

The liquid apogee engine acts as a “cone to capture” to help guide the probe which once it passes through the throat of the engine, expands to capture the client satellite.

A Vostok-K rocket sent the capsule, carrying Yuri Gagarin, into low orbit with an apogee of 327 km.

Along with Galileo, it represents Brecht at his epic apogee.

We missed the apogee of the hippie revolution becoming something more serious.

Winehouse laid down the track in her attic studio in 2009, at the apogee of her hard-partying ways.

It reaches its apogee in Bodrum, since nowhere in Turkey is the produce and seafood fresher or more abundant.

The apogee of all this dressing came on December 23, 1908, when he formed The Mark Twain Corporation.

When the apogee of society is reached, attacks from pygmies seem more curious than offensive.

Hatfield village touches the extremity of wretchedness, just as Hatfield House marks the apogee of late feudal splendour.

The apogee of the Company had been reached: from this time its downfall was rapid.

The first renaissance obtained its apogee toward the year 1500.

This incident of the fan marked the apogee of the first stage of Nort's career in the office of the Star.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apogee, such as: apex, acme, climax, crest, peak, and summit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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