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apogee

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That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

Fig.: The farthest or highest point; culmination.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. Walter Benjamin

At the apogee of the state's evolution, architecture was monumental, and the ruling class were exalted as a pseudospecies. The sacred rites of statehood became the central focus of religion. E. O. Wilson

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. Martin Filler

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. Nicolas Roeg

their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development Source: Internet

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