denouement

Then, in “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom described the educational denouement: universities failing to transmit serious understanding of the Western inheritance while teaching students to distrust its claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

What a denouement to the group this promises to be.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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

Because of his high score, Gligoric was already assured a berth in the Candidates, so he could easily offer Fischer an early “grandmaster draw” and coast to a successful denouement.

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

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

From the start Martin’s books diametrically opposed the sort of neat denouements C.S.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2019

I laughed myself through to the blackest of denouements and beyond.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013

The answer that came to her was one of the denouements of the game.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht