anticlimax
Example Sentences
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There have been mixed reviews of the concert with Pulp guitarist Mark Webber telling BBC 6 Music describing the show as "a slight anticlimax".
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
In Bluff, the sun rose on an anticlimax.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
The world-ending conflagration Wagner intended for the ending was a fire-free anticlimax at the bottom of an empty pool.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023
But as quickly as the crisis began, it ended abruptly in a type of anticlimax one day later as Prigozhin's forces stopped their march on Moscow, stood down, and agreed to return to their barracks.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2023
Although it was only the sixth round out of twenty-two, for Bobby everything that followed from Bronstein was an emotional anticlimax.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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