climaxing

present participle of climax
as in culminating
to bring to a triumphant conclusion organizers climaxed the county fair with a down and dirty pie-eating contest

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Recent Examples of climaxing Bloody, disturbing, shocking, and entertaining as hell, the Ghost Ship opening couldn’t be any more different from the absolute slog that follows it, climaxing on a muddled and overly complicated ending. Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026 The film’s first 40 minutes brings what feels like a continuous cut of increasingly bloody action, climaxing in the leveling of an entire town. Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 May 2026 At one point, the script prominently featured Hobbs, with the story climaxing in the destruction of Rio. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Nov. 2025 Chaining together standard and heavy blows with acrobatic spins, slips, and dives is fluid and intuitive — leaving combat feeling like an ever-climaxing dance of death that often ends with insta-kill execution moves. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025 The climaxing backlash has led brands and industry associations to pressure domestic policymakers to come to the rescue and define nationwide auditing standards and regulation protocols promoted by the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy. Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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  • During the final half-hour, Leeds stepped off and Newcastle had their best spell, culminating in Bazoumana Toure scoring his first Premier League goal, though by then the game had long been lost.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The conspiracy stretched from South Florida to Colombia and Haiti before culminating in Moïse’s brutal killing on July 7, 2021, after a squad of Colombian commandos stormed his house accompanied by two Haitian Americans from South Florida.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • Andres Chaparro, Jacob Young, Keibert Ruiz and Daylen Lile have been above-average everyday bats who are finishing strong.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The company frames itself as a global creative talent and post-production studio focuses on editorial, color, VFX and finishing for brands, agencies, studios, networks, and artists.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
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  • If completing a task would require violating the code, the model must fail the task instead, Microsoft said.
    Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Testing a new rail on checkout traffic puts the riskiest use case, an unfamiliar customer completing an irrevocable transaction, first in line.
    Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Climaxing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/climaxing. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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