denouement
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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
Rangers have a leadership deficit that has cost them their place in the denouement, they have a weakness at their heart that caught up with them in the end.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
The quick denouement extended a period of calm in which the U.S. has stopped its strikes and few Iranian drones or missiles have fallen on the Gulf since Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Next week the league phase comes to a dramatic denouement with all 18 matches kicking off at the same time.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
The scene is a denouement, ugly and raw.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
His characters are novel, the situations eccentric, the denouements unexpected.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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