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apex

[ay-peks] / ˈeɪ pɛks /


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Visibility at the apex of the sport can be vital to success at the high school and youth levels, which account for most of the 800,000 helmets sold each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

“I just don’t understand the stance that people think coyotes are evil when the reality is human beings are the evil apex predator on this planet,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

"We're talking about a true apex predator, a very large wild animal," says Parton.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Film footage from the visit shows Bobby at the apex of his life.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“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 four piers of the crossing, though slender and graceful, carry full, logical complements of shafts for the support of the various vaulting ribs, intersecting at their apexes.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

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

Grew says that “when the attire or apices break or open, the globules or dust falls down on the seedcase or uterus, and touches it with a prolific virtue.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

The Palpi are small and triangular, with their blunt apices clothed with a very few scattered bristles.

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

My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and large bunches between the steps, All below duly traveled, and still I mount and mount.

From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs


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