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

A pensive denouement shifts to the characters’—and the crows’—postwar fates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The day after May failed to make her appearance, the day after Ob trudged miserably one way while I trudged miserably the other, was what they call in English class the denouement.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

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

Campy whodunnit Clue embraced the chaos: its 1985 cinema release randomly featured one of three different denouements to encourage repeat business.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2021

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

And there was in the manner in which he leaned, smiling, toward Clotilde, the revelation of a secret love that had grown slowly, awaiting patiently the hour fixed for the most reasonable of denouements.

From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano