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crescendo

noun as in increase to climax

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Over tattered drum and bass patterns, retro-futuristic crescendos and ephemeral melodies, Twigs attempts to bottle the way dance music makes her feel.

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That battle is quickly reaching its crescendo with just three weeks left in the season.

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Public attacks against Tomer-Yerushalmi reached a crescendo in recent weeks, with many posts on social media calling for her to be killed, according to Fake Reporter, an Israeli misinformation watchdog.

“The fiesta exploded. There is no other way to describe it,” writes Hemingway in Jake’s voice, but here and now, it’s more of a hum slowly reaching its crescendo.

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That reached a crescendo in recent days after she admitted she was the source of the leak in a resignation letter.

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