apogee
Example Sentences
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The Space Force identified the object as an apogee kick motor that is used during some satellite launches to assist in getting a satellite to reach a destination in higher orbit.
From Washington Times
The early 1920s were the apogee of the revived Klan in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times
It arguably reached its artistic apogee in early-20th-century Vienna, where it was seen as uniquely suited to capture the flux and fluidity of life in Europe’s febrile modern cities.
From Washington Post
“This could signify the apogee of its toleration,” she said.
From New York Times
In an 1889 remodeling, the monument acquired a panoramic 360-degree frieze about initiating trade with natives abroad, at the apogee of French academic painting and the height of France’s commercial empire.
From New York Times
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