climactic
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Others disagree with Flanagan’s alteration to the story’s climactic scene, which shifts culpability for the prom massacre from Carrie to a character created expressly for the series.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
The climactic end to the Scottish Premiership, coupled with the summer of football and managerial upheaval that followed, has made it somewhat easy to forget that Rangers finished last term third.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The climactic struggle on the carousel did not appear in Highsmith’s novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I can’t really wrap my head around the magnitude of this moment, but it just seems so, so appropriate to have such a climactic moment in my life arrive in somewhat anticlimactic fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
On the morning of July 6, 1865, the clock began ticking on one of the most dramatic events in the history of Washington, the climactic event of the manhunt.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
The Crucible
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