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- noun Plural form of
apex .
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Examples
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Unfortunately there are some right-wingers who'd like to impose their own version of the Taliban on this country, and ruin us the way Islamic extremism ruined what was once one of the world's apexes of civilization.
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She coolly describes a dinner party where she witnessed the separation of the apexes of mind and body: "Sartre was alone in a corner, eating sadly some corned-beef, and I sat in front of Rita Hayworth, trying to speak to her, and looking at her beautiful shoulders and breasts which could have made so many men crazy but which were so useless for me."
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At their apexes the threads bloom into ganglia of red flak, white in their centers.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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At their apexes the threads bloom into ganglia of red flak, white in their centers.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Indeed, for me, this brief period of the "avantgarde" in modernist art constitutes one of the most notable apexes of mankind's artistic endeavor.
The Work of Art in the Age of Computational (Re)Production *** Alpha Auer 2009
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The upright seating position and windscreen made it a snap to hit apexes.
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The upright seating position and windscreen made it a snap to hit apexes.
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They, these apexes of corporate finance in nation after nation, determine how much currency (money) will be created and circulated.
Voices of Descent and Dissent: The G-20 and People's Movements 2009
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Indeed, for me, this brief period of the "avantgarde" in modernist art constitutes one of the most notable apexes of mankind's artistic endeavor.
Archive 2009-01-01 Alpha Auer 2009
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The moose muck started piling with his vice-presidential pick and apexes into a mountain of lion excrement with his feigned pause to his campaign to save the fat cats who've been dropping on the American people since the bankers took over the government.
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