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adjective

Definition of culminatingnext
as in crowning

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culminating

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verb

present participle of culminate
as in finishing
to bring to a triumphant conclusion culminated the school year with a trip to New York

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Recent Examples of culminating
Verb
Thirty new holes have been created specifically to challenge golf’s best, each culminating in a real-world green area that swivels and oscillates to set up distinct surfaces. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 3 Jan. 2025 The film blends elements of Indian mythology with futuristic technology, culminating in epic battles that span both physical and spiritual realms. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for culminating
  1. finishing
  2. climactic
  3. fateful
  4. concluding
  5. apocalyptic
Verb
  • Injuries, a declining offence and a disappointing bullpen all led to the club finishing last in the American League East.
    — Kaitlyn McGrath, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The class in Nebraska six years ago featured Omaha Burke’s Xavier Watts, who is finishing an All-America career at Notre Dame in the CFP.
    — Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of finishing
Adjective
  • What everyone remembers most from Dumb and Dumber is the climactic explosive-diarrhea scene.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The climactic scene in that film took place when Wallace’s mother and her son face the difficult decision of battling heatstroke in a car that won’t start or confronting the big, rabid dog waiting for them outside the small vehicle.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of climactic
Adjective
  • But as the bill awaits that fateful hearing, the changes from last year have smoothed the criticisms that ultimately proved fatal.
    — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Everyone is a suspect, and there’s a lot of buildup to finding out what happened at a fateful St. Patrick’s Day party 15 years prior — especially when Chelsea (Ilana Glazer) makes a mysterious reference to an incident that made the entire school ostracize her.
    — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of fateful
Verb
  • Former police chief Joe Chacon, who served in the role from 2021 to 2023, nixed a plan to do so after concluding that the sidewalks were too narrow and could not safely contain the swarms of people that flock to the area on weekends.
    — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Resistant to sacrifice, the country was concluding that intelligence, integrity and mastery of the issues were not enough for presidential success.
    — Jonathan Alter, TIME, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of concluding
Adjective
  • In The Last of Us, Ramsey plays Ellie, the young survivor of an apocalyptic plague that has decimated humanity.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The play looks at a more innocent time in our level of apocalyptic fears and compares it to our current state of high alert.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of apocalyptic

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