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apex

[ey-peks] / ˈeɪ pɛks /


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The new wolf arrivals join a growing collection of apex predators at the park now available for public viewing.

From BBC Jul. 20, 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

As apex predators, great white sharks occupy the top levels of marine food webs.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 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

Stroll said: "The car was feeling good throughout the session. Q3 was really tricky, I had a few lock-ups and missed some apexes, but good enough for a top three."

From BBC Nov. 3, 2023

“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

I don’t know whether you know it, but your property apexes the Lost Burro.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

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

Length in proportion to the breadth of the capitulum variable, owing to the varying degree to which the scuta and terga have their apices produced.

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

Crests were originally worn by military commanders upon the apices of their helmets as the proud distinction of their rank; and, by adding to their apparent stature, served to give them a formidable aspect.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

Some doubtful signs of consolidation were observed at both apices of the lungs.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.




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