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apex

[ey-peks] / ˈeɪ pɛks /


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"Given that she stands at the apex of the Unification Church, and considering her position and role... a prison sentence is unavoidable," the court said in its ruling, Yonhap news agency reported.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 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

Describing the company as a “haloscaler,” Deutsche Bank analysts told clients before earnings that SpaceX “represents in our view the apex of civilizational ambition.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 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

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

These apexes are established in our representation by describing a circle—the plane projection of the hyper-sphere—about the central point of intersection of the axes.

From Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon

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 valves are small, the apices only just crossing each other, and are composed of yellow chitine, with mere traces of calcification.

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

The Layer of small Pyramidal Cells.—The typical cells of this layer are pyramid-shaped, the apices of the pyramids being directed towards the surface.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Among the latter there is always a series of dark triangular spots, with apices pointing towards the hind margin.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux




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