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apex
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    At the apex of the ceiling, where the Pantheon's skylight would've been, a circle of pure black stone gleamed, as if to reinforce the sense that there was no way out of this place—no sky above, only darkness.  (source)
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    Lumpy and wet, they sagged inward near the roof to form an arch, with an apex lost beyond the feeble light of my lamp.  (source)
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    Four hundred vertical feet above, where the summit was still washed in bright sunlight under an immaculate cobalt sky, my companions dallied to memorialize their arrival at the apex of the planet, unfurling flags and snapping photos, using up precious ticks of the clock.  (source)
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    Then, at the apex, the grass was thick again because no one sat there.  (source)
    apex = highest point
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    —ezundant diviso vertice flammae Alternosque apices abrupta luce coruscant.†  (source)
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    The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!†  (source)
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    He could sit on the see-saw until he rose to the apex; then he fell.  (source)
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    My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.†  (source)
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    But next to it, there was now a staircase carved into the pyramid leading all the way to the apex.  (source)
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    He climbed the spiral staircase to his sleeping cabin at the apex of the ship.  (source)
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    We were the apex predators, each one of us alive only because our ancestors had killed and eaten other animals, outcompeted everything else to survive.  (source)
    apex = highest level in a hierarchy
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    There's a woman here, a grande dame at the very apex of society and one of the richest people in the Southeast, let alone Savannah.  (source)
    apex = highest level
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    By the force of its passage, it leaves behind a shock wave that is clearly visible in the flame, a bright spreading cone that is a hundred times larger than the dark source at its apex: a black bulletlike thing supported on four legs that are churning too fast to be visible.  (source)
    apex = peak
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