I saw this passage in a recent magazine:

The 98-foot vessel, a nearly $2.5 million replica of a thousand-year old Viking ship, … had been … on a voyage that would culminate 35 years' research –"the best living-archaeology experiment every conducted anywhere."

I'm used to "to culminate" as an intransitive verb. But have you ever seen it used as a transitive verb, as here?

According to my MW, the transitive verb means to "climax". I think I've seen it used like this once or twice but usually as either "to c...." or "c...in".

While the sentence works as is, I probably would have said, "...on a voyage that be the culmination of 35 years ...." Others may disagree.

I've never seen it, nor would I so use it.

But the use of intransitive verbs as transitive is, I think, becoming increasingly common. The one that always makes my teeth grind is "grow", as in "We need to grow the business".