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Recent Examples of finality
Along the same lines, as much respect and admiration the Bills have for 2024 starting safety Damar Hamlin, there was a sense of finality when they were asked about his future with the Bills at the NFL Combine.
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Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
The three-and-a-half-hour special closed with McCartney performing a Beatles medley that imparted such a sense of finality, I wouldn’t have been shocked if Michaels had come out onstage afterwards and announced that SNL was ending right then and there.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
The Doomsday Clock was established as a global symbol such that the strike of twelve would represent the finality of our existence.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
The advantages stablecoin transactions have over wire transfers include speed, traceability, finality, and, in some places, better foreign exchange rates, Paschini says.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
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Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
The three-and-a-half-hour special closed with McCartney performing a Beatles medley that imparted such a sense of finality, I wouldn’t have been shocked if Michaels had come out onstage afterwards and announced that SNL was ending right then and there.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
The Doomsday Clock was established as a global symbol such that the strike of twelve would represent the finality of our existence.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
The advantages stablecoin transactions have over wire transfers include speed, traceability, finality, and, in some places, better foreign exchange rates, Paschini says.
—Brady Dale, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finality
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Teams need to be prepared for all those eventualities and the Rangers simply don’t look prepared.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Nevertheless, The Defeated came and went in the United States with little fanfare, a disappointing eventuality that Mårlind chalks up to the fact that average Americans were lucky enough to avoid the utter devastation WWII wrought upon the European continent.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Although momentum in baseball should be as fickle as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, the New York Mets have managed to maintain it with their fan base through a difficult playoff loss, through the winter and into a new regular season, as seen in a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Staying silent limits the ability of business to shape tomorrow's economy.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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Other critics contend that technology is changing so quickly that the batteries used in the near future will be different from those that are used now.—
Ian Urbina,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Then, on Wednesday, a day before Maryland took the court for its first Sweet 16 game in a decade, Willard dodged questions about his future with the Terps, a stark contrast to his comments a week earlier.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Finality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finality. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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