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climax

[klahy-maks] / ˈklaɪ mæks /




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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 cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Huge numbers of Muslims prayed on Mount Arafat on Tuesday at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage, defying searing temperatures under the desert sun as they fulfilled a lifelong dream.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

The day spent praying there is considered the climax of the Hajj.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The waving man at the peak of the right triangle is the climax of this mood of rising hope and advancing motion.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell




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