Used in a Sentence

culminating

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for culminating.

Editorial note

True, the author does not provide empirical data, but anyone who has worked through a few projects culminating in a rush is familiar with the effects on person and quality.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of culminating gathered in one view.

verb

(intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.

verb

(intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.

verb

(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for culminating.

verb

(intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.

verb

(intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.

verb

(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

verb

(intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.

Example sentences

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True, the author does not provide empirical data, but anyone who has worked through a few projects culminating in a rush is familiar with the effects on person and quality.

2

In other frameworks you explicitly have to tell it every little detail of how to get milk, usually culminating in the IMammalianFactoryMilkFactory pattern.

3

Even the Buddha was thought to have lived hundreds of lives, eventually culminating with his miraculous (by traditional accounts) life 2500 years ago...

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Instead, he claimed that Haskell has all of these features together and that the culminating result is a pleasant implementation of a real-world problem.

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The main advantage of western countries, culminating in the U.

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I'm pretty sure that if you abolish paper money, you'll just give rise to a strong barter economy culminating in private paper money.

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Knowledge of both performance and production will affect the way you hear recorded music, ideally culminating in an approximate understanding of how the different sounds were made and molded.

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There are 2 districts with a number of these (although low by manhattan standards, culminating at 100m) but they are relics of the 70s and none has been built since then.

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Based on the timeline I would suppose it is related with the massive financial crisis that Portugal plunged in that time period, culminating in the 2011 bailout.

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What appears to be a long jump to a non-expert on first glance, on deeper inspection will usually turn out to have involved multiple small incremental steps culminating a final discovery.

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Perhaps, but what I can blame them for is for having very poor monitoring (50% failure rate and nobody noticed??) and poor security, culminating in this data breach.

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In other words, the reality of China's behavior pretty much guarantees being in an undeclared arms race with the potential of culminating with results that will dwarf World War II (a billion dead?).

Quote examples

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This seems to focus on a few issues that neatly fall into a sense of "progress" in social change, in which something changes in a number of states culminating in a Supreme Court decision that causes that change to affect the entire country.

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People blamed the "old block" for running the country to the ground and it kind of culminating in the people voting for a "joke-party" since most other politicians and parties could be regarded as jokes as well.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use culminating in a sentence?

True, the author does not provide empirical data, but anyone who has worked through a few projects culminating in a rush is familiar with the effects on person and quality.

What does culminating mean?

(intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.

What part of speech is culminating?

culminating is commonly used as verb.