variants
also crescendoes
or crescendi
as in heights
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 crescendos
Herzi’s slender, unassuming drama contains few emotional crescendos or grand insights, although this is the rare French film to center on a Muslim lesbian as its protagonist.
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Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
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Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
The tag team has led to the band’s best collection where super sharp hooks meet ugly, glorious crescendos and curious arrangements.
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Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
To date, astronomers have managed to detect about 300 such mergers via their associated crescendos of gravitational waves.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
These musical crescendos are practically chapter titles, offering opportunities for sobering reflection.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
After the best of the album’s crescendos, Ellis strips everything away again, pining for a character named Annie.
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Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
19 Dec. 2025
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.
—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
The tag team has led to the band’s best collection where super sharp hooks meet ugly, glorious crescendos and curious arrangements.
—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
To date, astronomers have managed to detect about 300 such mergers via their associated crescendos of gravitational waves.
—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
These musical crescendos are practically chapter titles, offering opportunities for sobering reflection.
—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
After the best of the album’s crescendos, Ellis strips everything away again, pining for a character named Annie.
—
Hannah Jocelyn,
Pitchfork,
19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crescendos
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The diversity of plant heights mimics what’s found in a forest and, as a bonus, offers better wildlife habitat.
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Still, the stock market continues to test new heights and is expected to tempt private equity owners and other investors to get out while the getting’s good.
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Bocas is blessed with more than a dozen excellent dive sites including underwater caves and pinnacles, reef walls, drift dive locations, and wrecks like the Barco Viejo and Mystic Wind.
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Though the top section of the Chimney Tops Trail (along with its rocky pinnacles) are closed due to fire damage, this is still one sight worth seeing.
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Full moons are culminations — don’t forget to pause and see what’s already come full circle before rushing into more.
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From the cheapest cuts to the most expensive, Argentina is tops, asserts Barahona, who has worked in restaurants across Argentina, Uruguay, and Texas.
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Think jackets, skirts, tops and shorts finished on both sides.
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In the Tetons, many also come with incredible head-on views of the namesake peaks.
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Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead.
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Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.
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Chases and weird extraterrestrial stuff abounds, leading to one of Spielberg's most gripping climaxes ever.
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These two songs function as the record’s thematic and sonic climaxes, respectively.
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“Crescendos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crescendos. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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