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
"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
But find it it eventually does, culminating in a transporting climactic scene that reaches rare heights of dramatic intensity and emotional force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
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