climax
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The emotional climax of the book is when the Beatles, isolated from the outside world in Wales at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s meditation retreat, learn of their beloved manager’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The film’s climax reaches for the same sense of civilizational awe as the mothership landing in “Close Encounters.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Huge numbers of Muslims prayed on Mount Arafat on Tuesday at the climax of the hajj pilgrimage, defying searing temperatures under the desert sun as they fulfilled a lifelong dream.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
The day spent praying there is considered the climax of the Hajj.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing climax
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Rhetoric
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