finale
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That’s when Jackson hit Flowers and put the game on the right foot of Loop, whose missed field goal in last year’s regular-season finale cost Baltimore a trip to the playoffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
After the women came forward, the actor was dropped from the finale of “And Just Like That” and was fired from CBS drama “The Equalizer.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
While the band refrained from directly addressing their past on stage, the emotional weight of their history peaked during the finale Still Life.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
De Palma’s movie finale never quite got us there, but maybe for a mystery we’ll never quite get over, that would have been impossible.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
When there was only one exposure left, Patrolman Mancuso decided to combine two of the props for a dramatic finale.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
We’re in an era where flashy or cliffhanger-type finales are big.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
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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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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