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culmination

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


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The recent findings marked the culmination of several years worth of hard work, titled Project Eisirean.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

“Creating this experience has felt like the culmination of what I’ve spoken about and worked towards my entire life,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

He’s the culmination of a change that dates back to September 11, 2001.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2026

And “Aperture,” the culmination, is Harry in his comfort phase, the New Yorker who has watched everything around him get renovated and priced out and has grown, in spite of it, into his own confidence.

From Salon Sep. 6, 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

Mr. McCain does not expect the health care vote to be the culminations of his congressional career, which began when he won a House seat in 1982.

From New York Times Jul. 25, 2017

Both seasons are brutal, logical culminations of a series’ worth of conflict.

From Slate Sep. 25, 2013

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 Walt Whitman




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