How to Use endgame in a Sentence

endgame

noun
  • It’s through Rial’s trance-like memories that the movie’s endgame becomes clear.
    Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The endgame for a funny writer, in short, is much more likely in television than in prose humor.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Nevertheless, Alankar fears the endgame could be the return of stagflation.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • After 30 years, Carol Hathaway and Doug Ross are still endgame.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Biden will reinstitute the emphasis on the two-state outcome as an endgame, but don’t expect a major push for peace from his White House.
    Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The answers to these questions often expose potential threats to Goff’s endgame, so Goff heads those off accordingly.
    William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2020
  • For people like Stewart, Sundiata, and Harper, the election isn’t the endgame.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • His determination to brush aside the ongoing crisis as a campaign issue has become the defining choice of his bid for a second term and the core of his message throughout the campaign’s endgame.
    Alexander Burns, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The family vacation in August 2019 began a hurtful endgame.
    Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
  • That scene is a key part of the show's endgame, and like Ventimiglia, Moore relishes those moments in which Fogelman reveals another piece of the puzzle to the cast.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • At least, that’s the endgame at the heart of the ‘Pac-2’ strategy.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • At least, that’s the endgame at the heart of the ‘Pac-2’ strategy.
    Jon Wilner, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The players know the endgame is built one game at a time.
    Mike Bass, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Alas, do not get your hopes up as the two are not endgame in the movie.
    Vulture, 14 Feb. 2023
  • So what is the endgame though in Ukraine and what does peace look like there?
    Time Staff, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • Hey, at least there's still hope for Japril to be endgame once more!
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The country would need to tread more cautiously in the endgame of the Afghan war.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Will that be the case with Vecna or is his story a part of the endgame?
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 3 June 2022
  • The outcome of the counteroffensive may shape the endgame for the war.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • World War II and its grim endgame marked the start of the digital age.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The endgame of this -- getting shots out to the public -- looked fuzzy not that long ago.
    Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2021
  • There is an endgame, if nations choose to try and reach it.
    Author: Eric Roston, Akshat Rathi, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • What is the endgame in terms of the NFT project in particular?
    Stephanie Hirschmiller, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • These are of course severe cases, but the endgame is the same: They are stressed out.
    Liz Worth, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • So what is the endgame of the group's trollish acts of sabotage?
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 8 May 2024
  • Now comes a lot of posturing as both sides sense the endgame.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Olivia Culpo wants to be his endgame…sorry, wrong team.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That was what appealed so much to me about Pamela — that the endgame meant nothing to her.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023
  • The even bigger question, though, is what’s the endgame, what’s the path out of the pandemic?
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Sylvia talks filming in Los Angeles, how the script was tailored when Burnett came on board and why multiple seasons were always the endgame.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2024

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