apex

“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

Riskier still, Arsenal was preparing to throw him into a Premier League shark tank full of title-winning apex predators such as Pep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, and José Mourinho.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Killer whales are highly intelligent apex predators and have been known to play with their prey and deploy sophisticated tactics to ensnare them.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

He stayed until the steeple caved in and the giant fork at its apex plunged into the flames, resounding with a mournful clang as it hit the ground.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

“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

When a flyer enters the territory which these guns are guarding, the gunner at one of the apexes of the triangle fires a shell which gives out a red cloud of smoke.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

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

Many species have the extreme apices of the segments pale, but with the apical integument so very thin, often looking nearly transparent and membranous, that its development would be very rapid.

From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders

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

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