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[ verb ] end, esp. to reach a final or climactic stage
Synonyms Examples "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)The report , culminating a year long study of the ADC program in Cook county by a New_York_City welfare consulting_firm , listed 10 long_range recommendations designed to reduce the soaring ADC case_load . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)It becomes most evident in his description of Christ as the second Adam , who does indeed come to destroy sin , but whose work culminates in the achievement of immortality . (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)It is made_up of tumbling , which might be said to start with a somersault , run_through such stunts as headstands , handstands , cartwheels , backbends , and culminate in nearly impossible combinations of aerial flips and twists and apparatus work . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The cowboy films , the cops and robbers films , and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not_only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; these films and these sequences are also seeking_out - instinctively or by_design - the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative . |
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[ verb ] bring to a head or to the highest point
Examples "Seurat culminated pointillism" Used in print (Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been , or could ever be , done . |
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[ verb ] of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian
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