climactic
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Others disagree with Flanagan’s alteration to the story’s climactic scene, which shifts culpability for the prom massacre from Carrie to a character created expressly for the series.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
The climactic final scene switched between a series of faces as we waited to see which of the famous faithful would... yawn.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
That’s thanks to a climactic moment in “The Outsiders” musical in which real water falls from the rafters as teen gangs brawl in a fight filled with rain, mud and stage blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The climactic section “Cosmic Bloom,” a flashy interstellar big bang, doesn’t transcend the sum of its parts as it was meant to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
I spotted one man tucking a handful of nutmeg into his pocket, just as Samir described the climactic troll feast.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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The Crucible
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