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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

And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The score, by Raül Refree, feels like an avalanche of crescendi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“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

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

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

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

Taking a cue from nickelodeon piano players, composer John Powell steers the mood with a vibrantly eclectic score of sprightly ragtime, violin pathos and popcorn crescendos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

She flashes me a smile, and the world spins—chairs stretch into colorful putty, laughter crescendos in peaks, and the floor beneath my feet wobbles like the land is melting out from under me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Near the end of the song, Erivo’s voice crescendoes from delicate notes to a strong and resounding riff that moves her audience to their feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

With its bright, liquid beats, through its chest-jouncing bass line, “Party/After Party” crescendoes into a staggering amalgamation of popular revelry and high art, and a vindication of Black electronic music’s inheritances and influence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

I have heard performances in which this third part of the song just descends into complete anarchy: weird warping crescendoes, cymbal crashes; atonal static from Mars, lizard music.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2015

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

And instant by instant the flood of varicolored flame that poured into its petalings down from the sapphire ovoids waxed and waned in crescendoes and diminuendoes of relucent harmonies—ecstatic, awesome.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

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

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

From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2023

Both of those 1980s-era properties crescendoed over four films, with initial ticket sales for each new offering exceeding the last.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 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

Co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, “You Can See Everything” has been the subject of crescendoing buzz since it premiered as a surprise screening last month at the Telluride Film Festival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

A single like Biology opens with a Chicago blues riff that morphs into a crescendoing succession of Euro-trance verses, followed by a stomping cheerleader chorus, before somehow reverting back to the original blues riff.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 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