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
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2024
Crowds will peak in July and August, and hit a crescendo around Aug. 15, Italy’s national Ferragosto holiday.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
The rift within the coalition then reached its crescendo last month, when Scholz asked the German president to dismiss Lindner.
—H.j. Mai, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
These are not the best of times for the woke fever that broke out across corporate America and the rest of our institutions over the past decade, reaching a crescendo in 2020.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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Her arms resolutely crossed, Dion got viewers ready for the game by invoking the majesty of Sunday Night Football amid a slow-motion montage of the teams’ coaches getting celebratory Gatorade baths as the strains of her ballad rose to a crescendo.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2024
Crowds will peak in July and August, and hit a crescendo around Aug. 15, Italy’s national Ferragosto holiday.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
The rift within the coalition then reached its crescendo last month, when Scholz asked the German president to dismiss Lindner.
—H.j. Mai, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
These are not the best of times for the woke fever that broke out across corporate America and the rest of our institutions over the past decade, reaching a crescendo in 2020.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crescendo
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In some ways, saber teeth represent an evolutionary pinnacle, the optimal design for a canine tooth to puncture prey, says Rayfield.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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For 2025, the VW Tiguan, which has been the company’s top selling model since it was redesigned in 2018 to align with the Atlas, serves as a pinnacle of all those ideas and then, takes them a step further with true luxury features and an even more elevated, refined style inside and out.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
Verb
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This number has fluctuated slightly throughout the years, peaking at 25 percent in 2006.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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The moon will peak shortly after in the theatrical and passionate sign of Leo, igniting your bossy 10th house of career, authority and public persona.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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John Ashton, the actor who reached a career zenith as detective John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop film franchise, died at his Fort Collins, Colorado home on Friday after a battle with cancer.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
29 Sep. 2024
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The best way to hold monoculars steady is to use two hands – one in front of the other – and use gravity when observing something at the zenith, allowing your eye socket to gently support their weight.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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However, even before the election of Trump, the DEI movement appeared to have crested.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
22 Jan. 2025
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As a force-of-nature newcomer vying for a big-screen break, Margot Robbie is all frantic energy, while Brad Pitt deploys his star wattage to great effect playing a famous leading man just cresting the peak of his career and starting on the way down.—
Kevin Lincoln,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
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The 2 back-to-back January actions are the culmination of Biden Administration antitrust enforcement efforts to place far greater emphasis on potential harm to labor interests, in addition to the traditional antitrust concern with promoting consumer welfare.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The video was inspired by the Resurrection City encampment that was the culmination of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and held on the National Mall that is steps away from the museum.—
Roger Catlin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
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This year’s list lacks some of the sizzle of last year’s, even if several of the guys at the top of it ended up elsewhere.—
Joseph Person,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Unfortunately, as tends to happen with private-detective work, my quotidian marital investigation has inadvertently led me to uncover a larger conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.—
Graham Techler,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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Scores of other active projects would be discussed in other meetings, on other days—including museum spaces in Bilbao, Madrid, and San Diego, and a proposal for a tower in Riyadh that, at a height of two kilometres, would be more than twice as tall as any building ever built.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Quite frankly, Moicano is far from being at Makhachev’s lofty height.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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At the climax of a recent episode of the U.K. version of the competition reality series, Gray stormed off the stage after the judges failed to save her.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Apple officially confirmed it back in fall 2024 following the climax of season 4.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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