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But the boom in new products is also dredging up some uncomfortable memories: The previous peak for thematic ETF launches arrived in 2021, as the COVID-era market mania was reaching its crescendo.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

He even tests his mettle by singing fully in English on “Find Us Again,” which is driven by a melancholic, country-music twang and a typical pop-rock crescendo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The revolt reached a crescendo when correspondent Scott Pelley confronted Bilton at his first staff meeting, accusing Weiss of “murdering” the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The recent crescendo of critiques of health messaging is not unfounded.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The score, by Raül Refree, feels like an avalanche of crescendi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“No other tenor did that. And just multiply that a thousand times. It’s crescendi, the decrescendi, all the lovely musical things. He’s just sharp that way, probably the best.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 24, 2018

As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013

This did not prevent Rossini from continuing to write crescendi, nor from being satirised and caricatured as "Signor Crescendo," when, some ten years afterwards, he went to Paris.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards

Thus, in the coloratura passages of Mozart's arias, I have always sought to gain expressiveness by crescendi, choice of significant points for breathing, and breaking off of phrases.

From How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Richard Aldrich

At least until Hans Zimmer’s music hits one of its glorious crescendos, at which point the cat will leap off the couch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The song blends delicate piano with impressive vocal crescendos, which Goodrem -- a songwriter, musician, film star and a coach on The Voice Australia -- has brought to perfection.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

As I approach the O’Hare exit on I-294, Dr. Becky says, “More than anything, your kid needs you to become a sturdy pilot during their emotional turbulence,” and everything both crescendos and collapses.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

In previous films “The Big Sick” and “Spoiler Alert,” the writer-director managed to tee up more than a few last-minute emotional crescendos.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

The music crescendos and so does her voice.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

With its bright, liquid beats, through its chest-jouncing bass line, “Party/After Party” crescendoes into a staggering amalgamation of popular revelry and high art, and a vindication of Black electronic music’s inheritances and influence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

As Bannon walks through dilapidated neighborhoods in slo-mo, the cyclical music crescendoes, and “American Dharma” develops a searing, operatic tone complimented by the recurring image of a burning flag.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2018

As the crew struggles to replace it, the storm crescendoes, plucking 's anchor from the seabed twice before it can be secured again.

From Nature ● Sep. 4, 2013

As the conversation, playing with the theme of war, spread itself in spasmodic blurs about the room, bursting in little crescendoes of conviction, pronouncements, suddenly serious and inviolable truths, Dorn found himself listening excitedly.

From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht

The roars crescendoed when Gauff was introduced before play began.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Starr Kirkland, an actor, teacher and longtime Realize Your Beauty facilitator, reminded the campers to keep repeating their phrase as the group’s chant of shoddy messaging crescendoed.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

“We work this, we study this!” he crescendoed, reminding the gym of their close CW roots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2023

As NRP donations increased in the U.S., debate emerged in spurts and crescendoed this spring.

From Science Magazine ● May 11, 2023

As the song crescendoed, a row of daisies poked up from the dirt and unfurled toward her hands.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Co-directed by comedian Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, “You Can See Everything” has been the subject of crescendoing buzz since it premiered as a surprise screening last month at the Telluride Film Festival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

A crescendoing jazz score from Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire invokes Miles Davis’ music for “Elevator to the Gallows.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

A single like Biology opens with a Chicago blues riff that morphs into a crescendoing succession of Euro-trance verses, followed by a stomping cheerleader chorus, before somehow reverting back to the original blues riff.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

The film delicately captures the flickers of possibility Dung and Linh Phung kindle in each other before crescendoing to an unexpected final act interwoven with a thrilling cai luong performance.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

I miss her laugh, the way it starts like a pianists solo, soft and low and then crescendoing and filling the room.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson