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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apogean
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There’s no shortage of seemingly apocalyptic phenomena flooding our lives every day.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
20 Jan. 2025 -
The entertainment industry’s creativity in telling apocalyptic stories has typically missed an element the L.A. wildfires have made more vivid, scientists say, which is the importance of human cooperation across communities.—
Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Just ask your favorite neighborhood teens, whose collective jaws dropped upon hearing it for the first time in a climactic 2022 episode of Stranger Things.—
SPIN Editors,
SPIN,
21 Jan. 2025
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There are multiple books devoted to finding the right monster to challenge your players during a climactic battle.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dominant as the changeup is, Kahnle’s reliance on getting hitters to chase the pitch may be part of the reason his walk rates of 10.6 percent and 11.5 percent have been higher than average in each of the past two seasons.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
The Athletic,
30 Jan. 2025
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In 2018, a live wire broke free from a 100-year-old transmission tower in high winds and sparked the Camp fire, which killed scores of people and destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California.—
Ivan Penn,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Chang and Chen shared a fateful exchange that could only be described as a little icy.—
Ingu Chen,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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Ricky’s poor mother has hardly slept a wink in 15 years, ever since that fateful knock at the door, and despite her stone-cold front, Joanne, an old friend of the Smiths, is actually doing her best to keep Ricky on the straight and narrow.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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For product leaders, the implications are clear: The future belongs to platforms that can turn those crucial first moments from an awkward introduction into the beginning of a valuable relationship.—
Kalyan Garimella,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The three keys to victory became a crucial part of the Titans’ identity.—
Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Apogean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apogean. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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