denouement

Hundreds of intellectuals and others have signed letters and online petitions expressing fears of a disastrous denouement: the collection’s prolonged — and possible permanent — absence from Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

But the absence of warmth in the performance robs the denouement of a portion of its awful pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

We now have a denouement at Celtic Park on Saturday, a straight shootout between leaders Hearts and chasers Celtic.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

“He later realized that was impossible, and this move is the denouement of that process.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

His chess innocence gone, he could now see the denouement perhaps twenty or more moves ahead.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Yet despite a number of similarities, including mistakes made and disastrous denouements that spelled defeat for the U.S., each conflict had entirely different impacts on U.S. society, culture and politics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

Imagine that none of the alarmist denouements materializes.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2020

He was a student of the Tom Wolfe school of writing and favored stories with deeper meaning and surprising denouements.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 14, 2020

Her book is a personal history because Ethiopia’s public dramas and denouements are refracted through the domestic prism of her grandmother Yetemegnu’s life.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

Mrs. Madison received it without excitement, remarking among her tears that it was one of the denouements she had imagined, and that on the whole it was the best thing he could have done.

From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton