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ending up

VERB

become eventually; come to a close

Synonyms

STRONGEST

finish finish up stop wind up

WEAK

arrive finally cease come to a halt finish as turn out to be

Antonyms

STRONGEST

begin commence start

Example Sentences

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Wall Street rallied and oil prices tumbled Thursday after Trump's comments, with the broad-based S&P 500 ending up 1.8 percent.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

"As a result, conscripts are now ending up in the war in record numbers."

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Mikel Arteta's side had finished second in the Premier League in each of the previous three seasons, before ending up as champions in 2025-26.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

“State media ending up in the training data will affect LLMs generally,” Roberts, co-director of China Data Lab at the University of California San Diego, told me.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Jim’s mother had studied at the Union Theological Seminary under several famous theologians and became a Confucian scholar, ending up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French