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finale

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


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Two weeks later, the Season 2 finale of Mudcats aired on National Geographic TV.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Die-hard fans of “The Bachelor” are known for their relentless online sleuthing in search of clues about who will be chosen in the season finale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

There is no country medal table, and the new event is billed as a season finale for individual athletes after the conclusion of the Diamond League campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Lee Chang-dong’s superb “Possible Love,” for instance, generates its explosively intimate finale by first investing us in the saga of strikers reeling from a brutal government crackdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

I went on a bit about the doctor’s unparalleled ability to turn simple language into poetry, and for my big finale I read his story of the elephant and the Who-inhabited dust speck.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

For more than a decade, “Saturday Night Live” writers Colin Jost and Michael Che have marked breaks and finales with a joke swap segment.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

And while 2026 will bring plenty of those, it will also yield revivals, new seasons of beloved shows, spinoffs and long-awaited finales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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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