climactic
Example Sentences
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There’s one climactic moment involving spitting when the staging undermines the action.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
And that’s precisely why the franchise’s disappointed fans and their frustrated allies spent the months ahead of the seventh installment’s February 27 release spreading and spoiling all of the film’s climactic reveals.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026
Thirty-six dancers with raised arms glide slowly forward as they encircle their prey, a lone figure on a red table in a climactic scene from Ravel's "Bolero" choreographed by Maurice Bejart.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
He kept reworking the confrontation scene between Salieri and Mozart, the play’s climactic moment in which irony once again gets the better of tragic recognition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
The final go-round of the song reached its climactic end.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
The Crucible
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