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culminate

[kuhl-muh-nayt] / ˈkʌl məˌneɪt /


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“Any officers who violate those standards are held accountable through investigations that may culminate in their peace officer status being suspended or revoked entirely.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

This athletics season was set to be the first since the pandemic which did not culminate in an Olympic Games or World Championships.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

For national tournaments, the corollary is how poorer countries always have to match up against richer ones for regional faceoffs and qualifiers that culminate in the quadrennial dream that is the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

After Najaf, Khamenei's body will be flown to Karbala, about 60 kilometres north, for another procession that will culminate at the shrines of Imam Hussein and his brother Abbas.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Programs scheduled to culminate in two years became outmoded in six months, and crowds of men gathered for them in one place were dispersed to twenty others.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

It culminates in a deeply unserious fight scene where everyone is very obviously not throwing punches.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

After Wimbledon, the season switches to the North American hard court swing which culminates at the US Open between 30 August and 13 September.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

“Choo Choo Revue” culminates in a look toward the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

The three countries, along with the Netherlands and Iceland, pulled out of this year's event in Vienna, which kicks off on Tuesday and culminates in Saturday's grand final.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

The clash culminates several weeks after Enrique arrives, when Maria Isabel telephones collect and her call is rejected because some of the immigrants in the trailer do not know who she is.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

The $111-billion transaction culminated a year-long battle by the 43-year-old tech scion to add Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

This culminated in a mini banking crisis by early 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The conversations behind the scenes at the convention culminated in Harris’ final answer for their request: no.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

It culminated in the excavation of a landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire, which lasted several months but found nothing.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Brussels has already drawn Washington's ire with probes under different laws, culminating in fines worth billions of dollars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Rebecca Onion digs into the movie’s many twists and turns, culminating in “the psychological-thriller equivalent of a plot quadruple axel.”

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

The task for Burnham is to meld these snapshots into a compelling and coherent narrative, culminating in a vision of the Britain he wants to see a decade from now.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And in “The Musical,” you can see both of her parents in the audience during the culminating school show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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