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