denouement

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Recent Examples of denouement By then, the staging — especially a scene-seating capsizing of the boat, which makes room for the lifeboat — was in place, and the gruesome denouement also remained. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Movies ‘Gladiator II’ exaggerates, but historians say the real-life Colosseum was plenty wild Nov. 22, 2024 The increasing strain of U.S. isolationism has led many to consider the pending denouement of another empire, this one American. Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 The boldness of the plot was a dark reflection of India’s rising economic weight in the West, despite the farcical denouement: An American informant had unwittingly been hired as a hit man. Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025 And that’s a wrap for Dark Matter, a more-thoughtful-than-I’d-expected series that lives up to its name by giving us a quasi-happy denouement that is in fact quantifiably more tragic than if Jason A had never found his way back to his family. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for denouement
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Noun
  • Cold Harbor, the evocative season two finale of Severance, clearly resonates with leadership strategists as a case study in the risks of extreme compartmentalization.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There will be some familiar faces who will be returning for the Season 2 finale of Elsbeth.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Meet the Real-Life Loves of Netflix's The Residence Cast Keep reading for everything to know about the bombshell ending of The Residence — including the unlikely murderer behind A.B. Wynter’s death.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • People seem to go to the movies more for films in which the heroes suffer but ultimately receive happy endings.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The people who enjoyed that show were cheated out of a conclusion.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Wednesday’s decision, which comes at the conclusion of the Fed’s two-day monetary policy meeting, shows that central bankers are waiting for evidence that inflation is headed toward their 2% target — or that the economy is weakening more than expected.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • According to Deadline earlier this year, the author is working on her sequel novel, set for publication in 2025 ahead of the premiere of season 2, which is in production.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • While sequels, spinoffs, and shorts have all helped keep the magic alive, the studio has been really banking on one strategy in particular: the live-action remake.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Soil testing in the aftermath of previous wildfires found that a significant portion of properties still had excessive levels of heavy metals even after cleanup crews removed a 3-to-6-inch layer of topsoil.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In the aftermath of Trump’s second ascendancy to the Oval Office this January, legislators in at least five states have introduced measures asking the Supreme Court to officially overturn Obergefell.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The report, which did not include a cause for the crash, noted that the exact sequence of the aforementioned events is still being examined.
    David Chiu, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • On Des Moines’ first attacking sequence after halftime, Feilhaber was fouled in the box to set up a penalty kick.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025

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