denouement

With lifelike features, including muscles and veins, it’s finer aesthetically but less distinctive than earlier pieces, and suggests the denouement of their separate culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

But that denouement is but a footnote to their much more significant collaboration in the years of the American crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

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

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

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

He takes part in no actions, no drama, no entanglements, no denouements.

From Life of Chopin by Martha Elizabeth Duncan Walker Cook