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the highest point
Once you reach the vertex of the mountain, the remainder of the route is all downhill.
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Recent Examples of vertex
The triangle’s vertices are formed by the stars Deneb, Vega, and Altair, forming a celestial isosceles triangle that’d make Euclid proud, that spans the constellations Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
The trio will appear to form a broad isosceles triangle with Venus marking the vertex angle, while Aldebaran and the moon form the base of the triangle.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 July 2025
In graph theory, a graph is essentially a collection of lines, or edges, and vertices, the points where edges meet.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
The crystal bases allowed complex, seemingly impossible calculations to be replaced with much simpler graphs of vertices connected by lines.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
The trio will appear to form a broad isosceles triangle with Venus marking the vertex angle, while Aldebaran and the moon form the base of the triangle.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 July 2025
In graph theory, a graph is essentially a collection of lines, or edges, and vertices, the points where edges meet.
—Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
The crystal bases allowed complex, seemingly impossible calculations to be replaced with much simpler graphs of vertices connected by lines.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vertex
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Wet and dry fronts, prevailing winds, moisture and vapour, meeting, as luck would have it, exactly at the top of that big mountain on the little island.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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What’s more, each top is under $30, which is ideal for our pocketbooks as well as the season ahead.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Five days later, the summit was off and new sanctions on Moscow were on.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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However, Washington and Pyongyang haven’t hinted at any meeting between the leaders ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea, as attention is focused on trade talks with China’s Xi Jinping over a growing trade spat.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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The autumn leaves were at their peak, making for a magical experience.—
Kelly Meyerhofer,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The current program, launched on January 5, charges drivers a daily fee, initially $15 and later revised to $9 for most cars, for entering Manhattan south of 61st Street during peak hours.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Barcelona used a mix of zonal and man-marking but struggled when teams exploited their comparalative lack of height and physicality by using players in motion.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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These ones have a lug sole that offers extra height and more room for cushioned support.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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The front will also prominently feature the City of Pittsburgh crest on the left shoulder to honor the team's connection to the city, while on the back of the jersey are large black block numbers.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Leaves may be flat or wavy or even cylindrical and shaped like tusks, arranged in a configuration like a fan, or maybe a pineapple top or the most emphatic of cockatoo’s crests.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Modern Jacketed Hollow Points Modern Jacketed Hollow Points, or JHPs, aren’t specific cartridges but represent the pinnacle of handgun lethality design.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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The clothes were superb, peerlessly realized and immediately desirable; sometimes young and zesty, but most often the pinnacle of adult sophistication.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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The footage revealed a new apex predator in the brown rat.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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Most of the loop experiences a drop in these elements, except at the very top, or apex, where their levels increase.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
27 Oct. 2025
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The high of a job well done only gets higher with that astounding tip, and by the time Josh is putting on his eyeliner for the night out, being $4,000 richer tastes like freedom.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Chinese e-commerce giant promised to cooperate with investigators who were alerted by an anonymous tip about the dolls — sold by third-party vendors — on Shein’s marketplace.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Vertex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vertex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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