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  • verb Present participle of crescendo.

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Examples

  • Any effort to stray from it felt like a light betrayal before crescendoing to a near blackout.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • 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

  • Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.

    Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010

  • 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.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady 2010

  • Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.

    Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010

  • Mr. Dimon's disdain for the process has been crescendoing for some time.

    Mr. Dimon Goes to Washington Robin Sidel 2010

  • 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.

    The Coral: Butterfly House 2010

  • 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.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady 2010

  • 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.

    Larry Abrams: Expropriating British Petroleum 2010

  • 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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