apex
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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
The movie is an apex of film noir, filled with dark shadows, moody lighting and ominous swaying palm trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Hardcore fans of Nolan’s knotty, grand-scale films are at the apex of this market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
To tell the truth, I wasn’t super-high on this idea, since Lena was not only a cheerleader but also the apex of the pyramid.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
“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
Michigan is divided into two peninsulas, the apexes of which meet.
From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley
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 this form six triangles are cut on the top so that their apices meet in a point called the summit.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 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 Darwin, Charles
Capitulum rather thick, with the five main valves having their free apices, diverging and truncated.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing apex
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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Ender's Game
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