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He even tests his mettle by singing fully in English on “Find Us Again,” which is driven by a melancholic, country-music twang and a typical pop-rock crescendo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The recent crescendo of critiques of health messaging is not unfounded.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

His executor disagreed, arguing that Anderson’s official home was a mansion in Vero Beach, Fla. The decadelong legal battle is just now reaching a crescendo, Ashlea Ebeling reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

You read that right: Despite a chorus of criticism over the last few years, which in recent weeks has reached a crescendo, the 60/40 portfolio is more than holding its own this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

As the music built to a crescendo, Anorak stretched out his right hand.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“No other tenor did that. And just multiply that a thousand times. It’s crescendi, the decrescendi, all the lovely musical things. He’s just sharp that way, probably the best.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 24, 2018

As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013

The suggestion of orchestral relationships is contained in the massiveness of the harmonic texture, and in the cumulative effect of the climaxes and crescendi.

From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman

This did not prevent Rossini from continuing to write crescendi, nor from being satirised and caricatured as "Signor Crescendo," when, some ten years afterwards, he went to Paris.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards

Thus, in the coloratura passages of Mozart's arias, I have always sought to gain expressiveness by crescendi, choice of significant points for breathing, and breaking off of phrases.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

At least until Hans Zimmer’s music hits one of its glorious crescendos, at which point the cat will leap off the couch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The song blends delicate piano with impressive vocal crescendos, which Goodrem -- a songwriter, musician, film star and a coach on The Voice Australia -- has brought to perfection.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

As I approach the O’Hare exit on I-294, Dr. Becky says, “More than anything, your kid needs you to become a sturdy pilot during their emotional turbulence,” and everything both crescendos and collapses.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

In previous films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert,” the writer-director managed to tee up more than a few last-minute emotional crescendos.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

As Bannon walks through dilapidated neighborhoods in slo-mo, the cyclical music crescendoes, and “American Dharma” develops a searing, operatic tone complimented by the recurring image of a burning flag.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2018

TAOYUAN, Taiwan — As the batter steps to the plate, the clamor crescendoes, a rhyming, thumping chant, often tailored to his name.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2018

As the crew struggles to replace it, the storm crescendoes, plucking 's anchor from the seabed twice before it can be secured again.

From Nature ● Sep. 4, 2013

Sections 5 and 6, the monologue of Wisdom, are cast in quatrains, but as the monologue crescendoes to its climax the quatrains 'augment' to 5, 6, 7 lines.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton

It crescendoed in the seventh, when the Dodgers stormed all the way back from what had been a four-run deficit, only to watch a temporary one-run lead fail to last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

The roars crescendoed when Gauff was introduced before play began.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Starr Kirkland, an actor, teacher and longtime Realize Your Beauty facilitator, reminded the campers to keep repeating their phrase as the group’s chant of shoddy messaging crescendoed.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

As NRP donations increased in the U.S., debate emerged in spurts and crescendoed this spring.

From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2023

Katherine had always been driven by curiosity, and as the activity in and around Building 1244 crescendoed, it consumed her.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

As someone who works in food, I see two main reasons behind all this crescendoing pressure.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

Vampire is just as good, masquerading as a piano ballad before Rodrigo unleashes on the titular blood-sucker with a series of venomous put-downs and crescendoing high notes.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

A crescendoing jazz score from Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire invokes Miles Davis’ music for “Elevator to the Gallows.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

“From the Italians has arrived a clear indication,” Ms. Meloni, known for her crescendoing rhetoric and cult of personality, said in a measured victory speech at nearly 3 a.m., “for the center-right to guide Italy.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit....

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman