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Recent Examples of culminate
Expect the biggest fireworks show yet The evening culminates with perhaps the headline event of the annual celebration, and a family favorite that is expected to be bigger than ever before.
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Josh Taylor, CBS News, 4 June 2026
The magic carpet ride of a season that included a Western League co-championship and a playoff run through the Loser’s Bracket that culminated in a CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship came to a crashing end Tuesday for the Patrick Henry High School baseball team.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
All six teams are playing a 60-game schedule culminating in the Banana Bowl Championship in October 2026.
—Eva Flowe
june 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
Both players handled it with grace; the team took off and has been elite ever since, culminating in an appearance in the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks beginning Wednesday night.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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Josh Taylor, CBS News, 4 June 2026
The magic carpet ride of a season that included a Western League co-championship and a playoff run through the Loser’s Bracket that culminated in a CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship came to a crashing end Tuesday for the Patrick Henry High School baseball team.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2026
All six teams are playing a 60-game schedule culminating in the Banana Bowl Championship in October 2026.
—Eva Flowe
june 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
Both players handled it with grace; the team took off and has been elite ever since, culminating in an appearance in the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks beginning Wednesday night.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culminate
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Plans call for a nine-screen movie theater spanning 40,000 square feet, restaurants and bars, retail shops, and a 773-space parking garage, which has already been completed.—
Brian Maass,
CBS News,
2 June 2026
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In the late 1960s and early ’70s, for example, Nilsson completed a series of silver ink drawings on black paper that nod to Indigenous Australian bark paintings.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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When her mother’s former gallerist reaches out with the offer of a show in exchange for the series’ completion, Indigo sees it as a financial lifeline—and in the face of her mother’s staunch refusal, decides to finish the series herself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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McCarthy finished two for four at the plate, including a solo homer in the third for a 2-0 lead.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Party activists like her but concluded this is not her time.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2026
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Citing Florida’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, investment bank UBS crunched the rosy numbers and concluded that promised benefits are off.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
6 June 2026
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The French Open is about to crown new champions.—
Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
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Friaca put them 1-0 up soon after the break, though — meaning unless Uruguay could score twice, Brazil would be crowned world champions.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Happily, from such inauspicious beginnings, the end-of-season promotion deciders have evolved into a cherished, if rather anxiety-inducing, climax to the domestic season.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
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So why did Harry feel the need to climax the song by racing three extra loops around the entire floor?—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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“Culminate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culminate. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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