Culminating
Greatest and culminating are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Greatest" instead an adjective "Culminating".
Greatest
Greatest adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Culminating and greatest are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Culminating" instead an adjective "Greatest".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- best and culminating
- best and greatest
- perfect and culminating
- perfect and greatest
- capital and culminating
- capital and greatest
- top and culminating
- top and greatest
- extreme and culminating
- extreme and greatest
- superlative and culminating
- superlative and greatest
- supreme and culminating
- supreme and greatest
Both words in one sentence
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The credits play a song called "Everything to Me" about how the blob is the greatest thing ever to happen to the boy, accompanied by a montage of pictures of them playing together with nobody else in sight, culminating in an end screen of him staring up at the moon.
Source: Video Game / A Boy and His Blob -
Gurthang ('Iron of Death'):, the Sentient Sword Túrin Turambar used in all his greatest and most tragic acts, culminating with the slaying of Glaurung (father of dragons), and his own suicide shortly after.
Source: Cool Sword - Calvin and Hobbes: The Series has "The World's Greatest Calvin", which has the titular protagonist attempting to break several world records, culminating in an absolutely insane obstacle course that he sets up (providing some early insight into his later Gadgeteer Genius persona).
Source: Guinness Episode
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