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climactic

adjective as in pertaining to climax

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When he chooses to cap a climactic chase seen with yet another baffling fall, we feel cheated.

An anti-climactic end is not the World Cup storyline that English fans anticipated.

It was an anti-climactic interlude in a trial that has had many moments of drama.

A new study from France says some women experience climactic pleasure during labor.

At a climactic moment in the scene, Wilson realizes his cousin Ruggles is of mixed race.

It is striking just now to notice the double key-note of that closing climactic book of this old Bible.

And a climactic treasure hunt among the subterranean Martian labyrinths.

Maybe the fourth or the eighth step will be "climactic" steps, especially arranged to make a climax in the dance and win applause.

So we put a climactic "trick" step in for a finish, and then we top that with the exit, and the exit must be a surprise.

The subjective is in order to the objective, as the final outward climactic reach of God's great love-plan for a world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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