noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
reach
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The twittering gradually reaches a crescendo - then, quite suddenly, the exodus begins.
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It reached a crescendo , though, in December with altercations at the Lindale center and at the Moose Lodge.
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The rumours about Swift were already reaching a crescendo on every stockmarket in the world.
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Normally, we see this ability reaching an early crescendo between four and six months.
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The clamour reached a crescendo last year when the full extent of the problems relating to the Solicitors Indemnity Fund emerged.
rise
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My spirits lift along with this rising crescendo .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The mood on campus is building to a crescendo of excitement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ari lazily observed its ripening crescendo .
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For the next 300 million years, the outpouring of magma built toward a crescendo .
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It reached a crescendo , though, in December with altercations at the Lindale center and at the Moose Lodge.
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Normally, we see this ability reaching an early crescendo between four and six months.
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The event was the crescendo of a century of history on the Great Plains.
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They seem to rise in a brief but sometimes piercing crescendo from the area of the stairwell at Cumnor Place.
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Where was the promised crescendo they asked themselves?