apogean

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apogean
Adjective
  • Power asserts itself mercilessly, and the action is shot through with apocalyptic premonitions, which reminds him of our time.
    Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The apocalyptic tale pits our hero Ellie not against the zombies that served as the frequent antagonists in the first game, but other people bent on destroying her and her surrogate father Joel.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In a statement, Furla said 80 percent of its employees are women from 80 nationalities, and 53 percent hold apical positions, including C-level roles.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • All the fractured parts in each group were bonded to their relevant apical parts by an etch and rinse bonding system and a flowable composite resin.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2013
Adjective
  • Just a short walk from the soundstage where the cast was filming that climactic scene is a workshop containing some of Reed's inventions.
    EW.com, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Our goal this episode was ending certain stories in climactic ways, yet building a platform for the show to leap off.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • From the foyer, an ethanol fireplace encased in slabs of polished stone anchors a lounge beneath ceilings over 10 feet high.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Some products, though, could face duties higher than 145 percent.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.
    Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
Adjective
  • The final episode of The White Lotus season three ended with a fateful bang for Rick (Walton Goggins) and girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), two of three series regulars who were gunned down in the climax of creator Mike White‘s latest work.
    Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Newly obtained investigative files provide fresh insight into one of New England's most notorious murder mysteries, which unfolded after Nathan Carman and his mother Linda Carman took a fateful fishing trip on Sept. 17, 2016.
    Audrey Karnan, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • With a constant wave of new competition flooding shelves—and social media—understanding your consumers' needs and habits has never been more crucial.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • All of these activities, at home and abroad, have shaped health policy in crucial ways that in turn protect people’s health.
    Casey Luc, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Apogean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apogean. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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