Both Uses
culminate
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- As spring gave way to summer, Spearhead accelerated into the culminating elements of its training agenda.†
Chpt 5. *culminating = reaching the highest or most decisive or final stage
- I didn't reflect on it at the time—indeed, not until many years later—but what I was experiencing was the irreducibly real Japan: the Japan that had existed before the militaristic epoch that culminated in the Pacific War, and that will continue into the next millennium.†
Chpt 20.culminated = reached the highest or most decisive or final stage
Definitions:
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(culminate) reach the highest or most decisive or final stage
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)