culmination

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Hegel was a metaphysician whose insistence that Geist, or spirit, pervades the historical process and moves it to some grand culmination is difficult to distinguish from New Age mysticism, and hence charlatanism.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

His arrival on Jefferson Street was not an attempt to restage that, exactly, but more a culmination of a life’s work.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

It is the culmination of a nine-day losing streak that has seen Paramount fall nearly 27%—the stock’s longest losing streak since June 2015.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

The project is the culmination of an idea about creating a tribute to her community that Halsey began developing nearly two decades ago while studying architecture at El Camino College.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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