But the Academy Awards are the culmination and climax of the award season.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

And his newly published book, an exploration of the Darwin's influence on science, philosophy and popular culture, is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the thinker.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

we're going to lean on each other.' And that's what we've done here the last four years and this is the culmination of all that belief and that faith."

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

But that apparently will not stop the culmination of his debut, in coming weeks, at the biggest party of them all, the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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