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finale

[fi-nal-ee, -nah-lee] / fɪˈnæl i, -ˈnɑ li /


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It's a finale fans have waited more than a decade to see.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Second, it marks a solid finale for a genre largely relegated to streaming, because for some odd reason, film executives don’t understand how powerful a collective romantic experience outside your living room can be.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

King Durin III sacrifices himself to a fiery monster in the Season 2 finale of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Sometimes, the talent is recruited for inscrutable reasons: Ann Wilson of Heart, curiously, delivers the big finale, which is, quite naturally, “Stand By Your Man.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

“But you haven’t even seen our grand finale yet!”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

No matter the strengths of AI, a chatbot cannot dream up stories with flawed characters and themes and arcs and failures and triumphs—with ambiguous finales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But the ones I found most interesting were finales I don’t remember encountering in Baseball Digest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Long before CBS announced it was pulling the plug on “The Late Show,” its host Stephen Colbert had already laid claim to helming one of late-night’s greatest finales.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

In their fifth and fourth Olympic appearances, respectively, Knight and Bowe return for their Olympic finales side by side hoping to put a golden flourish on their careers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

He rarely showed up when a particular movie was about to begin, so he’d seen beginnings, finales, and middles of dozens of movies, but hardly any in their entirety.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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