crescendo

Lindzon, also a partner at venture-capital investor Social Leverage, noted at the time a crescendo in the chatter about AI chips, he told MarketWatch in an interview on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Linda Noskova wins the women’s championship, and provides the emotional crescendo of the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

By this time, the clamour to stop playing Suryavanshi at the age-group level, even against players five years older than him, had reached a crescendo.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

The troubles reached a crescendo during the live finale when a distraught Tran revealed that the man she had chosen as her husband-to-be, Devin Strader, had ended their engagement a month before the broadcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

The cries grow louder and louder alongside a crescendo of laughter.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

“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

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 Edwards, Henry Sutherland

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 Aldrich, Richard

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 Gilman, Lawrence

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

It’s a great song pick with manic crescendos — You blow a fuse, zing boom!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

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

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

As the conversation, playing with the theme of war, spread itself in spasmodic blurs about the room, bursting in little crescendoes of conviction, pronouncements, suddenly serious and inviolable truths, Dorn found himself listening excitedly.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

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

In the second, a siren crescendoed into a blaring signal whistle to herald the piano’s violent re-entry — a satisfying climax built from unusual means.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

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

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

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

She married Michael Jackson, just as concerns about his behavior with children were crescendoing, and his efforts to remake his face were intensifying.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 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

With power rock chords, crescendoing piano, and operatic heights, "Bat Out of Hell" wasn't like anything anyone had heard before.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022

I miss her laugh, the way it starts like a pianists solo, soft and low and then crescendoing and filling the room.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson