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- noun Plural form of
climax . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
climax .
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Examples
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The book simply stops rather than climaxes, which is, as with all things, rather disappointing.
The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett Adam Whitehead 2010
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A wonder in a break, a whole wonder and more rascality in a slight waste and even that so infinitely noised even that is not a disaster in splendor and more titled climaxes more titled climaxes have miserable second voices than any voices and away is more than the resemblance that is necessary.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories Gertrude Stein 1910
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Over the next several months I had a few more "climaxes" as God took me deeper and gave me an insatiable appetite for theology, 'the study of God.'
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If we can let go of goal-oriented pleasure, what we may find is that our climaxes orgasms may become even more amazing, delicious, and earth shattering than ever before!
Maria Rodale: Can You Make Your Sexuality Organic? Maria Rodale 2011
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You could hardly have asked for a more marked contrast in the approach to a season finale than this weekend's first-season climaxes of HBO's magnificent Game of Thrones and AMC's flawed though often fascinating The Killing.
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About troubled teen lovers fleeing the adult world, it climaxes with an extended party scene featuring music by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Leonard Cohen and Alice Cooper.
Surveyor of Our Landscape Kristin M. Jones 2010
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The novel climaxes with President Kramer's uphill battle for reelection.
Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace Patrick Anderson 2010
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If we can let go of goal-oriented pleasure, what we may find is that our climaxes orgasms may become even more amazing, delicious, and earth shattering than ever before!
Maria Rodale: Can You Make Your Sexuality Organic? Maria Rodale 2011
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The novel climaxes with President Kramer's uphill battle for reelection.
Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace Patrick Anderson 2010
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Lynette's insistence that Tom toughen up his parenting style climaxes with him finding her doing a keg stand at a high school party when she goes looking for Parker, and it's only then they finally get on the same page.
Desperate Housewives Episode Recap: "Making the Connection" 2011
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