Third-person singular present tense of culminate; reaches the highest point or climax.
From Latin culminatus, past participle of culminare (to reach the summit). The verb entered English in the early 1600s as Latin scientific vocabulary became standard in English.
Every story, symphony, and scientific study 'culminates'—this verb became so useful that it's now one of the most common ways we talk about reaching the end of anything important.
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