apogean

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for apogean
Adjective
  • He and other firefighters returning from distress calls described an apocalyptic level of destruction.
    Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 May 2025
  • All the hallmarks of American poverty — bad food, obesity and urban blight — coalesced in an apocalyptic scene of destitution and vagrancy.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Its iconic, climactic mirror maze shootout has since been echoed in countless films (from Enter the Dragon to the climax of John Wick: Chapter 2); in Us, a seaside carnival’s funhouse of mirrors marks the inciting location of horror and revelation.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • The script musters scant interest in Niki’s career ambitions and romantic complications, and her halting conversations with her mother keep chasing a climactic point of mutual understanding that never arrives — a poignant impasse, perhaps, but a difficult one to structure a film around.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Similarly, home equity loans and lines of credit tend to have high interest rates: in the mid-8% range as of mid-May, according to Bankrate.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • Dentists often prescribe fluoride supplements to at-risk children who have high amounts of plaque, don’t regularly see a dentist, or have family members with dental disease.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 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
  • But one fateful summer, I got called up to go up to Saratoga Race Course and work for a print publication called The Saratoga Special.
    Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
  • But once the crew sets out on a fateful cattle drive to Montana, confronting the hazards (both elemental and human) of the still-wild West, the novel becomes a dizzying adventure, pulling more and more characters into its wide, braided narrative.
    The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • As such, supplemental Federal assistance is crucial.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2025
  • Importantly, a dog’s wants and needs do not always align with what their owners expect, and this is a crucial point in regards to animal welfare.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 May 2025
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“Apogean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apogean. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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