climactic
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Before Saturday's extraordinary final, the most climactic moment for me was Muchova beating Gauff in a thrilling tie-break in the semi-finals.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The final season of the kitchen drama starring Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri prepares all the ingredients for a climactic ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
That sense of complexity fuels Vecna, the antagonist of “Stranger Things,” whose climactic final season sees the character, played by Jamie Campbell Bower, take on a multitude of faces — some human and some grotesque.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
George Lucas credited her with helping make sense of the vast amount of footage filmed for the climactic Death Star battle sequence.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
In any case, despite the anti- climactic results, the test results were interpreted by the AEC as validating Livermore’s role as the developer of “new ideas” in thermonuclear technology.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing climactic
The Crucible
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