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culmination

[kuhl-muh-nay-shuhn] / ˌkʌl məˈneɪ ʃən /


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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

It was the culmination of Coke’s development of a well-oiled food-service operation and a new feather in the cap of Dagmar Boggs, who oversees Coke’s food service relationships across North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"This extraordinary genomic resource, the culmination of years of international cooperation of Bat1K, is finally allowing us to understand how their remarkable biology evolved."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

The recent findings marked the culmination of several years worth of hard work, titled Project Eisirean.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

She was the shimmering culmination of all her ancestors’ strife, joyfulness, and struggle.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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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