culmination
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District Judge Kathleen M. Williams wrote in an order, released on Monday, breaking down the culmination of Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
When it opened in 1914, McCullough writes, the waterway was “the culmination of a heroic dream of four hundred years and of more than twenty years of phenomenal effort and sacrifice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Instead, Alfonzo’s first appearance, the culmination of nine tireless years, was somber in the Dodgers’ 5-2 loss to the Padres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
But for Swifties, this is the culmination of a two-decade fairytale.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household because little Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
About 100 high school graduations and end-of-year culminations were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, with graduation events continuing through June 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Amazon’s fulfillment centers are one of the more disturbing culminations of this same mania for hyper-regulated efficiency at all costs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
I think it’s because of a writerly trick that Beard uses in each of these stories, which has the effect of making the deaths proper culminations of the pieces in which they appear.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2021
What’s really been happening is a series of culminations of parallel stories, worked out in parallel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2010
By it, with what follows it, are convey'd to mortal sense the culminations of the materialistic, the known, and a prophecy of the unknown.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
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