crescendo

Lindzon, also a partner at venture-capital investor Social Leverage, noted at the time a crescendo in the chatter about AI chips, he told MarketWatch in an interview on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Noskova’s victory ceremony proved to be the emotional crescendo of the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

But that's all turned on its head as we reach the awkward, clumsy crescendo of the day: the talent show.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Yet Daniel Pemberton’s opening theme music is a rousing crescendo of stadium rock synthesizers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

When his voice rose in a crescendo, flames leapt from his fingers with a sudden whoosh and made the crowd gasp.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

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 Aldrich, Richard

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 Edwards, Henry Sutherland

The suggestion of orchestral relationships is contained in the massiveness of the harmonic texture, and in the cumulative effect of the climaxes and crescendi.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence

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

In the book, he writes of "angry crescendos and heavy silences" from his parents' bedroom, which instilled a "constant watchfulness that became instinct before I understood why".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

She flashes me a smile, and the world spins—chairs stretch into colorful putty, laughter crescendos in peaks, and the floor beneath my feet wobbles like the land is melting out from under me.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Near the end of the song, Erivo’s voice crescendoes from delicate notes to a strong and resounding riff that moves her audience to their feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

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

I have heard performances in which this third part of the song just descends into complete anarchy: weird warping crescendoes, cymbal crashes; atonal static from Mars, lizard music.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2015

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

A faint whir crescendoes rapidly into the shrill whoop of a steam-siren, and a great balloon-shaped cloud of smoke and dust has already arisen from amidst the marching mass of men ahead.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

As “Turn the Lights Back On” crescendoed, the crowd sang along earnestly.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

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

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

As someone who works in food, I see two main reasons behind all this crescendoing pressure.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

Musgraves started her set boldly, with the sweeping Spanish guitar of the album’s title track crescendoing as a giant metal heart ignited in flames behind her.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022

And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of pursuit....

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman