climax
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She said that the change to the script added a spiritual strangeness to the film and gave the second act a real climax, because no one expected to lose the Jedi master.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The day spent praying there is considered the climax of the Hajj.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
On Tuesday, the climax of the hajj is the gathering on Mount Arafat, about 10 kilometres from Mina, where it is believed the Prophet Mohammed delivered his final sermon.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The epochal confrontation between the two views of the Cosmos—Earth-centered and Sun-centered—reached a climax in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the person of a man who was, like Ptolemy, both astrologer and astronomer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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