climax
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“If the broadening out is making a sustainable comeback, this price momentum in semis stocks likely needs to reach a climax, and it appears that may be happening, on schedule,” Wilson says.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
Antonelli, meanwhile, stopped two laps after Verstappen, and the tense climax was staged.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
The emotional climax of the book is when the Beatles, isolated from the outside world in Wales at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s meditation retreat, learn of their beloved manager’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
She said that the change to the script added a spiritual strangeness to the film and gave the second act a real climax, because no one expected to lose the Jedi master.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The climax came at noon one summer day.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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