culminate
verb (used without object)
to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in).
had culminated
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past perfectof culminate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ahead of a visit Thursday to Melbourne, Herzog told Channel Seven's Sunrise a "wave" of anti-Jewish hatred in Australia had culminated in the December 14 Bondi killings.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
The feud over exploratory drilling rights had culminated in a naval standoff three years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
He was responding to nearly a century of philosophical, scientific, and technical advances in Central and Western Europe that, he felt, had culminated in his own lifetime in a more enlightened and just age.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Despite this, BBC One controller Charlotte Moore called Strictly 2013 "a vintage year" which had culminated in a "dramatic all women final which saw Abbey crowned champion."
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
