as in pinnacle
the highest part or point
excitement in the auditorium slowly built up and reached its crescendo when the star walked on stage
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Recent Examples of crescendo
Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
Hype around MySpace reached such a crescendo that Rupert Murdoch purchased it in 2005 for $580 million.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
The festival’s crescendo arrives on Saturday, September 27 with Southern Living’s Food & Fire, a sprawling walk-around tasting event at Sloss Furnaces.
—Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The final looks were a crescendo of colorful tinsel and bouncing gift ribbon that completely enveloped the models.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Opening day would reach its crescendo — as McBride alluded to — with the performance by Porter, who was opening the festival’s main arena stage for this 68th edition.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
Hype around MySpace reached such a crescendo that Rupert Murdoch purchased it in 2005 for $580 million.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
The festival’s crescendo arrives on Saturday, September 27 with Southern Living’s Food & Fire, a sprawling walk-around tasting event at Sloss Furnaces.
—Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The final looks were a crescendo of colorful tinsel and bouncing gift ribbon that completely enveloped the models.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crescendo
Noun
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Modern Jacketed Hollow Points Modern Jacketed Hollow Points, or JHPs, aren’t specific cartridges but represent the pinnacle of handgun lethality design.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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The clothes were superb, peerlessly realized and immediately desirable; sometimes young and zesty, but most often the pinnacle of adult sophistication.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Conditions in this region will be particularly hazardous due to 40mph winds (which are expected to peak early Thursday afternoon), which will cause blowing snow, reducing visibility to around a half-mile or less.—
Amanda Greenwood,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Temperatures are expected to peak only at 42 degrees on Sunday, with a hard freeze possible overnight, the weather service said.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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And with both genres still at the zenith of their popularity in Asia, why change a winning formula?—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Then, pick a patch of sky 40 degrees away in the direction of your local zenith, which is the point directly above your head.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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In Hoyer’s mind, the Tokyo Series represented the culmination of the organization’s long-running efforts to establish connections in Nippon Professional Baseball, highlight the Cubs as a brand overseas and turn Chicago into a destination for Japanese players.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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The election chaos represents the culmination of an increasingly tarnished human rights record by Tanzania in recent months, with all eyes on international observers and countries following the polls.—
Martin K.N Siele,
semafor.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Wet and dry fronts, prevailing winds, moisture and vapour, meeting, as luck would have it, exactly at the top of that big mountain on the little island.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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What’s more, each top is under $30, which is ideal for our pocketbooks as well as the season ahead.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Barcelona used a mix of zonal and man-marking but struggled when teams exploited their comparalative lack of height and physicality by using players in motion.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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These ones have a lug sole that offers extra height and more room for cushioned support.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Without spoiling the climax, A Tale of Two Sisters uses the haunted house motif almost as a window dressing to obscure the psychological aspects at play in this immensely enthralling, supernatural flick.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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In some ways, Doug’s death signaled two tragedies, as Sage’s grand romance also came to a climax and an end over the course of Gen V’s season two finale.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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The footage revealed a new apex predator in the brown rat.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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Most of the loop experiences a drop in these elements, except at the very top, or apex, where their levels increase.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Crescendo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crescendo. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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