crescendo
Example Sentences
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From Davos to Munich and across the capitals of the old Continent, the clamor is rising to a crescendo.
But as Bentley started assembling the picture, he realized that “Train Dreams” reached a more emotional crescendo earlier, when Robert goes up in a biplane, crucial memories suddenly flooding through him.
From Los Angeles Times
A recent surge in trading volumes for software ETFs points to a “selling crescendo” says Chronert, and this means on a shorter-term basis “a bottom has likely been felt among the software industry group.”
From MarketWatch
But the fundamentals, the catalysts that drove events towards this week's crescendo, remain unaltered.
From BBC
Data for the survey was collected largely before geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Europe reached a crescendo over U.S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
