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culminates

verb

present tense third-person singular of culminate

as in completes

to bring to a triumphant conclusion culminated the school year with a trip to New York

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Recent Examples of culminates The festival, now a summer tradition, which culminates with its Grand Classical Gala and Closing Gala at the Fillmore Miami Beach, offers audiences a chance to see dancers and companies that rarely perform in South Florida. — Orlando Taquechel, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026 And all the fun culminates with the Golden Vines Awards Gala. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026 The constellation culminates during August evenings, putting it at its highest and easiest to find between the bright stars Arcturus and Vega. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The race was the first gubernatorial runoff in the state's history, and culminates a hot contest that featured three debates and raked in big donor dollars. — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 July 2026 The live entertainment accelerator started in 2022 as a 10-week experiment and has since grown into a six-month intensive program with weekly guest speakers from Live Nation, which culminates in the annual block party. — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Alberto Barbera, the festival's artistic director, unveiled the lineup Thursday for the 83rd edition of the festival, the first of many in a busy fall film season that culminates in the Hollywood awards showdown. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 The weekend culminates Sunday with the free 816 Day festival at the Power & Light District. — Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026 The series culminates in a close pass over the planet that was taken before the Psyche spacecraft slipped into interplanetary space. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

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Rocketdyne is returning as an independent company as AE Industrial Partners completes its purchase of L3Harris Technologies’ space propulsion, power, and electronics units, Space News reports.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026
The 10-track Living Proof completes an evolution that began long before the group’s 2024 rebrand after 16 years as Mike and the Moonpies.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of completes

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The pressure is on Jeremie Frimpong to stay fit while Conor Bradley — viewed as the long-term solution — finishes his injury rehabilitation.

— Andy Jones, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
A student in a two-year master’s program who finishes on schedule may never need an extension.

— Abigail Boggs, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

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