as in ending
the last part of a process or action
the finale to the festivities was a grand display of fireworks
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Recent Examples of finale
Strider’s next start is expected to be for Atlanta in the finale of a three-game series at Toronto that begins Monday, one year after having internal-brace elbow surgery.
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David O'Brien, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In Wednesday’s 3-2 loss in Cleveland — the Sox’s seventh straight defeat, a skid that reached eight in Thursday’s series finale — Mike Tauchman walked into the final out in the ninth after injuring a hamstring rounding third as the tying run.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
In a series in which the club scored just eight runs across four games, the win in the finale took some weight off their shoulders.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The 11th inning of the series finale qualified as a crisis.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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David O'Brien, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
In Wednesday’s 3-2 loss in Cleveland — the Sox’s seventh straight defeat, a skid that reached eight in Thursday’s series finale — Mike Tauchman walked into the final out in the ninth after injuring a hamstring rounding third as the tying run.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
In a series in which the club scored just eight runs across four games, the win in the finale took some weight off their shoulders.
—Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The 11th inning of the series finale qualified as a crisis.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finale
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As previously reported, the actor is set to reprise his role on the offshoot, and this bit of info from Harvey, tying Hardman to Ted’s Big Bad, certainly helps piece together the why and how, as does, possibly, the episode’s ending.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
13 Apr. 2025
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Drake was also accused of refusing to identify a person who rewrote the ending of the film, and who was not a guild member.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2025
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Across the music world, other international artists — even those with far more name recognition and resources — are coming to the same conclusion.—
Alex Ashley,
Rolling Stone,
9 Apr. 2025
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Studies from New Zealand, Sweden, and elsewhere have come to similar conclusions, finding no negative effect of low levels of fluoride on IQ.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
9 Apr. 2025
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While the million-token context window is impressive, OpenAI’s data suggests that model accuracy can decrease when processing information at the extreme end of that scale, indicating a need for testing and validation for specific long-context use cases.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The end of the parole program is part of Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration paths that allow people to temporarily come to the U.S. Republicans also criticized the parole program as an overreach and abuse of executive presidential power.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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The 4,000-square-foot unit at 425 Broome Street is the culmination of a series of pop-ups that the brand has opened around the world over the past six years.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
8 Apr. 2025
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Trump’s tariffs are the culmination of a decades-long shift in political perceptions in the United States, in which trade has gone from an unalloyed good to the source of all ills.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Finale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finale. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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