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v. - Rise to, or form, a summit; Bring to a head or to the highest point; End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; Reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body; Reach the highest or most decisive point.

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  • "What this will do - and I hate to use the word culminate - but this will culminate in a strategic plan and then go into an implementation phase.
  • Withraed and culminate in that of Æthelred and Canute.
  • To culminate the day's events, that evening Elsa ran away.
  • Will not the habit of their life culminate in an eternal refusal?
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