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apogee
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The Moon's furthest point from the Earth is known as apogee.
“Soon the replacement of the whites within Texas will hit its apogee.”
Wade may have been the culmination of the anti-abortion movement, but may also mark its apogee.
The Moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical which means there are times when it is further away - apogee - and times when it is closer - perigee.
The tradition that begins with the Cycladic sculptors is generally seen as reaching its apogee many centuries later when their Golden Age descendants finally arrived at an accurate if idealized treatment of the human form.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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