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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The identity of the killer is revealed in the movie's climactic ending.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A climactic scene is a brawl between the wife and husband on a ski-slope about his extra-marital affair.
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Her body had reached a climactic moment of its cycle, and felt famished and restless.
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His climactic moments were of action, not of response.
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History was reaching its climactic moment and there were signs and wonders to prove it.
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More agitation and complexity rear their heads in the second movement, building to a climactic fury.
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Now what are the determinants of climactic rhythm?
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They moved together to the edge of fulfilment - and beyond, crying out as the climactic explosion burst upon them.