apex

Maybe I’d just cultivated too much shark knowledge, well aware that these apex predators are docile and do not hunt humans like they do in Peter Benchley’s novel.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Living among apex predators could make you safer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

After being hunted to extinction a century ago, gray wolves are continuing their remarkable comeback story in California, with state wildlife officials reporting a modern record number of the apex predators in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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

But unlike those ancient structures, the symbol at the apex of the central steeple was not a cross, but a two-pronged tuning fork.

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

Michigan is divided into two peninsulas, the apexes of which meet.

From A Man and a Woman by Stanley Waterloo

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 capitulum is very nearly as wide at its summit as at its base, owing to the divergence of the apices of the valves.

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

This union generally takes place at the base, and extends more or less towards the apex; in Phyteuma the petals are united at their apices also.

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

Third unicuspid usually smaller than fourth; upper unicuspids usually with pigmented ridge extending from apices medially to cingula, uninterrupted by antero-posterior groove; post-mandibular foramen usually absent.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley