denouement

Then, in “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom described the educational denouement: universities failing to transmit serious understanding of the Western inheritance while teaching students to distrust its claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

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

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

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

I laughed myself through to the blackest of denouements and beyond.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013

I see Freedom, completely armed, and victorious, and very haughty, with Law         by her side, both issuing forth against the idea of caste; —What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti