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finale

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


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The arm-wrestling will kick off in earnest at a Brussels summit in October, with a likely second meeting in November, before a grand finale in December when leaders will look to seal the deal.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The final five debuted as a group at the show’s finale in October of 2025, where they performed before an audience of 10,000 at the Auditorio Nacional Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

The finale in America - the hosts of the 2031 World Cup - indicates that is the goal.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

This was a pre-season finale to forget for Manchester United.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Now, the flickering lights of the finale wash over us, spectacular explosions, muzzle flashes, the steady glow of reactor fires.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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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