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culmination

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


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The release last month represented the culmination of a year-plus of work led by Wang and Nat Friedman, head of Meta’s AI-products division.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Not to give away any spoilers, but this is the ultimate lesson in Goldie’s new book, “The Retirement Answer,” and it is the culmination of six key decisions he walks readers through.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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

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

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

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

It had two culminations; shortly after the appearance of The French Revolution, and again towards the close of the seventh decade of the author's life.

From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol




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