apogean

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apogean
Adjective
  • Back treatments address muscle tension while clearing meridian blockages.
    Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Civil contributes his own piano playing too — notably a Bach hymn that serves as the story’s crowning moment of failure as triumph.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The victory was a crowning moment in her rapid ascent since joining the main roster in May 2025.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Each of the watches has its bracelets and cases hand-serrated by files, giving the sleek sports watch a post-apocalyptic twist in stark contrast to its mirror-effect gradient dial.
    Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Musk also cites apocalyptic scenarios and points to transformative technologies that can save humanity.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal synapses.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the opposite was happening in the apical dendrites: The difference in their response to unexpected stimuli increased over time.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • Gaga appeared early in the show to pick up what would likely have been one of the climactic awards, Artist of the Year, which clearly had been bumped up to allow for her attendance.
    William Earl, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • On occasion, just such a feeling is achieved, especially in the climactic runway sequence, when a rainstorm whips up and epiphanies are experienced.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • However, the AmCham Shanghai survey found 14% of the respondents reported the environment for foreign businesses in China was worsening, with the tech sector seeing the highest challenges at 31% of industry respondents.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If you are trapped by moving water, move to the highest possible point and call 911 if possible.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Keeping high-ethylene producers away from climacteric fruits can keep them from ripening too quickly.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Neighbors reportedly told Ku’s brother that prior to the fateful Taiwan trip, Herchen and Ku could be heard arguing and mentioning divorce.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • For the most part, the documentary takes a minute-by-minute look at that fateful morning, with so much intensity and nightmarish immediacy that there’s very little time or room to ask questions or think about anything beyond the next moment.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Apogean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apogean. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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