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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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I’m trying to get all my homework done today, because tomorrow morning is the big procession, the culmination of all the queen events, when I’ll be paraded through the city with Luz and Elsa.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

Mr. McCain does not expect the health care vote to be the culminations of his congressional career, which began when he won a House seat in 1982.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

Both seasons are brutal, logical culminations of a series’ worth of conflict.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2013

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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