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culmination

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


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She comes from a long line of people who have served their community and taught Halsey to do the same. “sister dreamer” is the culmination.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

According to Professor Tom Gordon, the latest findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, mark the culmination of years of global research.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Roberts-Smith's arrest was the culmination of a five-year investigation by a special watchdog set up after a landmark inquiry into allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

His new role marks the culmination of a remarkable rise for Blanche, who worked as a paralegal in the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office while attending law school at night.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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