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

The apex predators were extirpated in the state in the 1920s, beginning to naturally recolonize their native digs only 15 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The problem is that the Brazilian likes to drift and drop back into space, which leaves a gap at the apex of Manchester United's attack.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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

In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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 spermatia are expelled from the lacerated and fringed apices, and are very minute and colourless.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

In some polypetalous corollas, as that of the vine, the petals are separate at the base and adhere by the apices.

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

In any event the American form T. abrupta Cke., with bifid apices, belongs here, and European specimens seem to show the identity of forms described by Karsten and De Bary.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride