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
Sam Falb, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
The engine sound and exhaust tone are designed to build a crescendo when driven aggressively but also allow for a quiet operation when cruising for an extended period and enjoying the audio system or talking to the passenger.
—Karl Brauer, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
White voiced his decision through a slow crescendo of criticism aimed at Lopes over her public statements and actions in the days after White granted Wenger a mistrial, at Lopes’ insistence, earlier this month.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Sinking onto Desdemona’s bed, reciting his lines without notable crescendo or feeling, Washington puts Osborne into a weary headlock, and then kind of leans on her to death.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
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Noun
DJs parsed out the energy of the room, building a crescendo of dance-forward classics and energetic bass as the crowd swayed under the golden glow of the evening.
—Sam Falb, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
The engine sound and exhaust tone are designed to build a crescendo when driven aggressively but also allow for a quiet operation when cruising for an extended period and enjoying the audio system or talking to the passenger.
—Karl Brauer, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
White voiced his decision through a slow crescendo of criticism aimed at Lopes over her public statements and actions in the days after White granted Wenger a mistrial, at Lopes’ insistence, earlier this month.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
Sinking onto Desdemona’s bed, reciting his lines without notable crescendo or feeling, Washington puts Osborne into a weary headlock, and then kind of leans on her to death.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crescendo
Noun
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The cut is also inching closer to the pinnacle of both the Hot Latin Songs and Latin Streaming Songs charts.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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This version of Florida does have some conspicuous differences from the one Billy Donovan first led to the pinnacle in 2006, nine years after arriving from Marshall.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Single adults peaked in FY 2024, with 604 encounters.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Buttery, flaky croissants peak through and get nice and toasty in the oven.—
Jasmine Smith,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Ipswich manager Kieran McKenna applauds the fans (Alex Broadway/Getty Images) This would be the zenith, a crescendo of noise.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Conclusion Just as the zenith of economic and earnings optimism in early 2025 gave way to creeping concerns about the durability of growth under pressure from possible tariff increases, maximum pessimism will eventually give way to a better reality.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Contemporary Native designers are cresting everything from suiting and gowns to streetwear and even athletic wear.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2025
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Mudslides and cresting rivers there destroyed around 2,300 structures.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The 4,000-square-foot unit at 425 Broome Street is the culmination of a series of pop-ups that the brand has opened around the world over the past six years.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
8 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s tariffs are the culmination of a decades-long shift in political perceptions in the United States, in which trade has gone from an unalloyed good to the source of all ills.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Warner would be near or at the top of that list, the people said.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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Veteran pollster Nate Silver predicted Ocasio-Cortez will be at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket in 2028.—
Cate Martel,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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That united display of fealty reflected Big Tech’s hopes that Trump would be more accommodating than President Biden’s administration and help propel an already booming industry to even greater heights.—
Mae Anderson and Michael Liedtke,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Hanging Your Curtain Rods Too Low One thing that can dramatically increase the feeling of space in your room is hanging your curtains at the right height.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Fans believed from Episode One that at least one character would die in a shooting, and, as in Seasons One and Two, each episode slowly (this time, much more slowly) built to the anticipated climax, leaving breadcrumbs both real and sometimes intentionally misleading.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2025
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In Sunday’s stressful Season 3 finale, all the storylines came to a tragic climax, with Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), Rick (Walton Goggins) and Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), who was revealed to be Rick’s real father, all dying in a shootout at the resort.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Crescendo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crescendo. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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