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Adjective
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This particular part of this year's Tour de France could be a make-or-break stage for the cyclists at the top.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 July 2025 -
What Happens When Scale Meets Scrutiny As compounders scale across B2B (hospitals) and B2C (telehealth), regulatory compliance becomes make-or-break.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Lowery remembered about shooting a climactic scene.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
7 July 2025
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Trump said the climactic celebrations, on July 4th, 2026, will include a festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—
Jackie Northam,
NPR,
4 July 2025
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With excitement growing over his pace and death-bowling abilities in the crucial latter stages of an innings — ramped up after a final-over hat-trick against Middlesex in the Twenty20 Blast — England fast-tracked him.—
Max Mathews,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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And many emergency management experts and state disaster response officials say that FEMA plays a crucial role that state governments cannot fill.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Born into the cult, Prophet draws comparisons between the group’s apocalyptic dogma (braced for a Soviet nuclear strike, the church built extensive Montana bomb shelters in the early 1990s), and Christian Nationalism, QAnon and the MAGA movement.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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This seemingly apocalyptic scenario wasn’t confined to Antarctica.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
27 June 2025
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For this reader, roughly the same age as Sam Raymond, there is uncommon pleasure in the paradoxes of this climacteric tale.—
Claire Messud,
Harper's Magazine,
22 June 2021
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Macerating unripe climacteric fruit in sugar, however, isn’t a substitute for ripening them; that just takes time in your kitchen counter’s fruit basket.—
Bill St. John,
The Denver Post,
8 May 2017
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“Go-no-go.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/go-no-go. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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