culmination

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But, for Douglas, ex-CEO of Abu Dhabi's Etihad airline, the inaugural flight is "the culmination of four years' worth of preparation".

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

“The system is the art,” says Refik Anadol during a recent tour of Dataland, the 25,000-square-foot immersive, environmental, generative, multisensory AI arts museum in downtown L.A. that represents the culmination of Anadol’s career thus far.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The installation of the memorial was the culmination of a dream - but there were setbacks along the way.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Richard Nixon left the White House via the South Lawn after announcing his resignation in 1974 in the culmination of the Watergate scandal, boarding a military helicopter and giving his trademark double victory sign.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond