apogee

Example Sentences

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At its 'perigee' the Moon is 30,000 miles closer to Earth than at its 'apogee'

From BBC

But over the years, occasional and fitful progress was halted by bouts of bloodletting that reached a brutal apogee a generation later, when Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct.

From Los Angeles Times

The Moon's furthest point from the Earth is known as apogee.

From BBC

“Soon the replacement of the whites within Texas will hit its apogee.”

From Salon

Wade may have been the culmination of the anti-abortion movement, but may also mark its apogee.

From Los Angeles Times