denouement
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The tragic denouement has left a complex reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
A pensive denouement shifts to the characters’—and the crows’—postwar fates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Finally the score was tied nine to nine, and the family on the sidelines readied themselves for a denouement.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
Yes, astonishing denouements began to crowd the stage.
From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Wallace Smith
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