culmination
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In many ways, “I Can’t Stop” represents a culmination of Hanawalt’s shtick for truth-telling via colorful anthropomorphized characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
What can look like a surprise candidacy to some is the culmination of years spent building relationships and registering voters.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
For Messing and his colleagues, the approval represents the culmination of more than 30 years of research, beginning with basic investigations into brain cell biology and eventually leading to a treatment for patients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Amex has been working to integrate Center ever since, and Wednesday’s launch is the culmination of that work, Joabar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household because little Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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About 100 high school graduations and end-of-year culminations were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, with graduation events continuing through June 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Amazon’s fulfillment centers are one of the more disturbing culminations of this same mania for hyper-regulated efficiency at all costs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
I think it’s because of a writerly trick that Beard uses in each of these stories, which has the effect of making the deaths proper culminations of the pieces in which they appear.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2021
What’s really been happening is a series of culminations of parallel stories, worked out in parallel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2010
So that the good old tradition of marriage for better or worse holds inexorably for him, and things work up to tragic culminations.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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