climax
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Lamar put Drake on blast in his halftime performance at the 2025 Super Bowl – the climax of which featured his diss track, “Not Like Us,” that only days prior had earned five Grammys.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
Last year, fans were asked to start "acting normal online" after stars were targeted with abuse in the build-up to the show's emotional climax.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
This wildly volatile session could mark a buying climax that often signals exhaustion.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
In the original, from 1934, Hitchcock united a cantata by one of his favorite composers, Arthur Benjamin, with the climax of a kidnap-assassination plot in a dramatic blending of action and music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
When the final climax came with the front of Holman’s bootery broken out and the party trying on the shoes in the display window only Gay didn’t hear the fire whistle.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing climax
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Rhetoric
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