culminate
verb (used without object)
to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in).
is culminating
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present progressiveof culminate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And so this is culminating in creating this huge squeeze on a big part of the American population, and people are still really stuck.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
This year, it is culminating in perhaps Freeman’s best all-around performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Today, this shift in approach is culminating in a conversion of all of the remaining U.S.-based TEAs/contractors in QA – more than 90 people across Irvine, Austin and Albany – to FTEs.
From The Verge ● Apr. 7, 2022
It feels as if that is culminating now.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
They die, not from inevitable age or irresistible disease, but in the full flush of manhood, in the very prime and zenith of life, in that glorious transition-hour when hope is culminating in fruition.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
