climactic
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That sense of complexity fuels Vecna, the antagonist of “Stranger Things,” whose climactic final season sees the character, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, take on a multitude of faces — some human and some grotesque.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
George Lucas credited her with helping make sense of the vast amount of footage filmed for the climactic Death Star battle sequence.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
But however felicitously Ms. Peck gathers all her dancers into a climactic grouping, her finale is less a theatrical capstone than a busy sum of her ballet’s many parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
"The worst-case situation would be that AI kills us all, I suppose," Musk declared with a smile, seizing an opening from his own attorney to invoke the climactic scenario from the film "Terminator."
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
As six o’clock and the start of the climactic race approached, the weather improved a bit more, though it continued to rain lightly and intermittently.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
The Crucible
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