climactic
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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
Muslim faithful ritually stoned the devil on Wednesday in the climactic ceremony of a hajj pilgrimage held in intense heat and against the backdrop of a war that has plunged the wealthy Gulf into crisis.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
But however felicitously Ms. Peck gathers all her dancers into a climactic grouping, her finale is less a theatrical capstone than a busy sum of her ballet’s many parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
There’s one climactic moment involving spitting when the staging undermines the action.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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