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But the boom in new products is also dredging up some uncomfortable memories: The previous peak for thematic ETF launches arrived in 2021, as the COVID-era market mania was reaching its crescendo.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Paramount’s high-profile lobbying campaign reached a crescendo in late August after Paramount called out activist-actor Mark Ruffalo, accusing him of resorting to “antisemitic tropes” to argue against the merger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

It was doing so earlier this month as he was zig-zagging across the United States in a private jet to make him virtually omnipresent as the World Cup reached its crescendo.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Ralph’s heart rumbled like a Peking Opera drum; it was the crescendo before — crash of the cymbals! — a hero appeared.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

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 recent weeks, furious Havana residents have signaled their displeasure with the outages in nightly crescendos of clanging pots and pans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Their song rose and fell in gentle crescendos that matched the waves lashing along the sand.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

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

As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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

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