apogee

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After the second stage reaches its most distant point on its orbit in late February — known as apogee — it will start falling back toward the Earth and cross paths with the Moon instead.

From The Verge

In emotional terms, the film reaches its apogee two-thirds in, after Laura loses her camera and all her images of Moscow.

From New York Times

A year later, the approach reached its apogee when Ronaldo arrived in Turin.

From New York Times

Ahead of the national parliamentary elections this weekend, President Vladimir V. Putin’s rule has reached a new apogee of authoritarianism, coated in a patina of comfortable stability.

From New York Times

Even those classics representing the apogee of aesthetic and moral imagination are considered suspect.

From Los Angeles Times