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as in finale
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the final part of something (such as a book, a play, or a series of events)
In the play's denouement, the two lovers kill themselves. the competition's exciting denouement
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The film’s only explicit reference to race arrives in the denouement, when Ma treats each of her teen victims to their own personal punishment.
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Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
Had these details aligned, there could have been an impactful denouement.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
What the lama has in mind for the arms remains uncertain until the film’s denouement.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 July 2024
But finally this fictive mystery doesn’t say much about homelessness or anything else, wasting its offbeat setting on a supernatural denouement that boasts two major twists.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Sep. 2024
Had these details aligned, there could have been an impactful denouement.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
What the lama has in mind for the arms remains uncertain until the film’s denouement.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 July 2024
But finally this fictive mystery doesn’t say much about homelessness or anything else, wasting its offbeat setting on a supernatural denouement that boasts two major twists.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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In the final part of the finale, Joan and Chock come out to be interviewed.Alice Burton, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Justin Hebert produced the lone victory in the regular season finale in 2020. Spags, as he is known, creates panic before the snap.Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ending is one of the most surprising last-minutes saves in cinema.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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Even the respective endings for Agatha herself feel linked.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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The decrease in revenue is primarily related to the conclusion of higher margin grants associated with the development of SGX943 and CiVax™.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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The conclusion of the poll is that many Americans think celebrities should stay out of politics, YouGov said — an idea in line with assertions made by the New York Times’ Peter Baker.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The film spawned eight sequels over the next four and a half decades.Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
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The sequel, entitled Black Sheep 2, reunites key members of the team involved in the original film, which was New Zealand’s most successful horror movie ever.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the aftermath of that election, however, Trump falsely claimed that Democrats had fraudulently stolen the election without any evidence to support such allegations.Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Many Americans are afraid of what the aftermath of the election could bring.Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
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The household is barely making ends meet in the series’ opening sequence, and after Jean’s disappearance, the siblings are cruelly separated by the British bureaucratic state.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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The test, developed at the University of California, San Francisco, extracts the DNA and RNA from a sample of blood, tissue or body fluid, and then sequences the genetic material and compares the sequences to a vast database of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites to see what matches up.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Denouement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denouement. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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