anticlimax
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Fox News’ Peter Doocy was among the unsatisfied, and he laid into Leavitt over the anticlimax.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025
Pulp guitarist Mark Webber told 6 Music's Lauren Laverne the show had been "a slight anticlimax, to be honest".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025
Eilish and her brother worked “What Was I Made For?” so hard over this awards cycle that the song’s tolling chords almost felt like an anticlimax as O’Connell started into them once again Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024
Getting that far only to lose in six after the epic Colorado series, again, would have seemed an anticlimax.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023
This seemed to Mrs. Hubbard to be a dramatic climax rather than an anticlimax.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Vocabulary lists containing anticlimax
Power Prefix: Anti
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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