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apex

[ey-peks] / ˈeɪ pɛks /


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Antonelli said: "From the apex after we had no deployment, so it was easy. It was flat all the way. It was not like last year."

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Those findings highlight the ecological importance of both apex predators and small protected areas.

From Science Daily Jun. 28, 2026

The Blue Sharks had come up against soccer’s apex predators.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

As princess, Bajrakitiyabha held an important ceremonial role in Thai society -- where the royal family sits at the apex.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“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

These apexes are established in our representation by describing a circle—the plane projection of the hyper-sphere—about the central point of intersection of the axes.

From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

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 Caudal Appendages exist as two very minute plates, with a few bristles at their apices.

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

The spermatia are expelled from the lacerated and fringed apices, and are very minute and colourless.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Sepals are generally of a more or less oval, elliptical or oblong form, with their apices either blunt or 563 acute.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various




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