to culminate
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6.3
- verb
- /ˈkʌlmɪneɪt/
- Formal
:
culminar
- After the examination, however, some teachers assign a paper as a culminating activity for the course.
- a culminating project
- efforts culminated
- process culminated
All of this can also culminate into isolation.
- All of this can also culminate into isolation.
- And all of this culminates into the sense of replaceability.
- That is going to be something that culminates at the end of this process.
- And, and so I think that sort of culminated in a lot of things happening with me physically.
- And of course, the commercial culminates with a Harrier jet landing at the Teenagers high school.
- And we're about to culminate that project next month with a final, final conference in Memphis, TN.
- And these many sequences are grief sequences that can culminate into a melancholy that trails you in your life.
- And I may I continue to make mistakes, culminating with a bad call on a mission in in September of that deployment.
- And indeed, the period at Medina culminates with the expulsion of Jewish groups who refuse to accept Muhammad.
- Like they're never going to stop, but they're approaching this, this culminating point where they're out of resources, their mental health is in the toilet.
- And of course, this trend seemed to culminate some years later with the end of the Cold War and the new world order that it promised.
- A lot of the conversation around this seems to kind of culminate with what you sort of describe as a different aspect of growing up.
- And the, the, the battle culminated in a series of negotiations.
- And of course, it culminates in in the end of the book.
- So once again, we see that absolute terror is going to culminate in death.
- Those things all culminate to an experience that just fills me up, you know, And when I can fill my tank full, then I can better love other people.
- And a lot of things culminated in that.
- It was a horribly vicious, violent crime that culminated in her death.
- Like all those times culminate in many false starts.
- So, so, you know, that's how they they say the investigation culminated was through that seizure.
- And I decided because of all of that culminating together, I'd get him an Apple Watch.
Examples
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Their negotiations culminated in a historic agreement that changed the future of trade.
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Others followed the next year, culminating in the mass trials of the Cranmer potlatch participants.
Academic text (1991) -
A lot of the conversation around this seems to kind of culminate with what you sort of describe as a different aspect of growing up.
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Authentic activities culminate in the creation of a whole product, valuable in its own right.
Academic text (2015) -
That is going to be something that culminates at the end of this process.
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And of course, this trend seemed to culminate some years later with the end of the Cold War and the new world order that it promised.
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I did 35 years of loyal government service, culminating as director of the world's premier intelligence agency.
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Years of economic reform brought social stresses that culminated in weeks of huge demonstrations.
Academic text (1990) -
The increased tension between the United States and Mexico culminated in the Mexican-American War in 1846.
Academic text (1990) -
After years of hard work and dedication, her efforts culminated in an award for best actress.
Synonyms
226
3.0
Finish an activity or task
208
3.1
To finish an activity or event
190
2.0
To complete an activity or task
31
6.1
Reach a final high point that ends with a specific result
31
2.5
To complete the last part of a task
30
3.9
Add a final thing to make something feel complete
22
3.5
To end, often after a meeting or event
11
4.0
To complete something by adding the final touches
10
4.8
To reach the most intense point in a process or event
7
3.7
Finish something with a special final action like a show or speech
Phrasal Verbs
How Climactic
Surface Forms
Morphology
culminate = culmination (transparent) = culmin + ate
The verb is directly related to the noun 'culmination'; learners who know 'culmination' can infer the verb meaning 'to reach the highest point'.
Etymology
Culminate comes from the Latin word culmen, which means 'summit' or 'top', and you can see the same root in culmination; think of all your work reaching the highest moment. So, to culminate is to arrive at the most important or final point.