apex
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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
Just as his digital persona reached its apex, his real-world life was locked in a cage.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
She paused, her fingertip at the apex of the circle.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
“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
I don’t know whether you know it, but your property apexes the Lost Burro.
From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp 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 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
Scuta three-lobed: terga concave internally, with their apices slightly curved inwards: carina moderately developed, slightly curved: peduncle blending into the capitulum.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
It consists of two pear-shaped bulbs of glass, united at their apices and having a minute passage formed between them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing apex
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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Ender's Game
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