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culmination

[kuhl-muh-ney-shuhn] / ˌkʌl məˈneɪ ʃən /


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“TheyDream” is a culmination of the eclectic and nimble artistic practice that Caballero has developed since he studied digital art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

It is the culmination of a journey that began in small London clubs decades earlier.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

"This is the culmination of 10 years of systemic failure to develop specialist provision for our most vulnerable children," he says.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges their final decisions—marks the culmination of an admissions process whose intensity has accelerated in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories.

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




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