apex

As apex predators, great white sharks occupy the top levels of marine food webs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the U.S., the emergence of corporate-sponsored electronic music festivals like Electric Daisy Carnival—which began, much like Dave & Buster’s offering would, in Southern California—and Ultra brought rave culture to the apex of commerce.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

He said his terrifying encounter with California’s most iconic apex predator won’t dim his love of nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Meta shares have fallen some 25%, shredding around $500 billion in market value, since their heady apex of nearly $800 a share in August of last year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

There’s probably a genetic reason every mother believes her son to be the apex of male beauty.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

“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 stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Length in proportion to the breadth of the capitulum variable, owing to the varying degree to which the scuta and terga have their apices produced.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs; On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps; All below duly travell’d and still I mount and mount.

From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows