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Apex entered English from Latin, where it originally meant "a small rod at the top of a flamen's cap." What's a flamen's cap? Flamens were priests who devoted themselves to serving just one of the many ancient Roman gods (for instance, just Jupiter or Mars). Those priests wore distinctive conical caps that English speakers dubbed "flamen's caps." Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century dramatist Ben Jonson was one of the few English writers known to have used "apex" in its flamen's-cap sense: "Upon his head a hat of delicate wool, whose top ended in a cone, and was thence called apex."
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 23 Sep. 2024
Yamal, one of the impactful forwards, is at the apex of this playing style.
—Henry Flynn, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
The cars at the very apex of the classic car market present some interesting challenges.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2024
At the apex of his career, the cleric was so popular that shops sold DVDs of his speeches, and many Lebanese used lines from them as ringtones.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Apex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apex. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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