finale
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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
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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
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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