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- verb Present participle of
crescendo .
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Examples
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Any effort to stray from it felt like a light betrayal before crescendoing to a near blackout.
It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011
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We walk farther into it, into this cradle of life so far away from everything, and I know—because I can hear it somehow—that both of us are thinking how nice it would be build a little house here, among the quiet, among the crescendoing rattle of cicadas, the warble of wild turkeys.
Taxonomies Jason Lee Miller 2011
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Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.
Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010
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She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing.
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Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.
Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010
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Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.
Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010
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But one yearns for more of the chaotic bravado that drove their early work: amid dreamy harmonies and jangly guitar lines, only the crescendoing title track and rumbling freak-out "North Parade" truly catch fire.
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She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing.
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It's not just the oil spill, it's the melting polar ice caps, it's the mysterious, scientifically inexplicable dead zones spreading through the oceans and the precipitously collapsing fish and invertebrate populations: seemingly discrete events all crescendoing together towards a terrifying dystopian climax.
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The efforts have been crescendoing as the U.S. government is due, by April 15, to decide whether China "manipulates" its currency.
Zoellick: Chance for Yuan Bob Davis 2010
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