culminating

Meaning

of Culminate

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ultimo final ending peak ultimate closing finishing integrating concluding climax convergent topmost crowning apical perfective
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Antonyms

basal introductory abecedarian nethermost awk rudimental
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Phrases with the word

culminating part of a funny story culminating part of a joke culminating year culminating point culminating project

Examples

According to a senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, Sextilis was renamed to honour Augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, occurred in that month. Source: Internet

After switching defense teams last year, Flynn began leveling a series of increasingly strident attacks at the prosecution, culminating in a motion in January to withdraw his guilty plea altogether. Source: Internet

A consequence of that rhetoric was a heightened threat of all out war, culminating in the assassination of Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, in January. Source: Internet

Along with the creativity culminating in their brilliant minds, the music in their hearts sits restlessly, just waiting to be passed forward exponentially. Source: Internet

After great tension within the city government, culminating in the assassination of the supporters of Carthage, Hannibal laid siege to the city of Saguntum in 219 BC. Source: Internet

After composing music for the Diaghilev -produced ballets Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913), Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism, a development culminating in his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927). Source: Internet