endgame
noun
end·game
ˈen(d)-ˌgām 
: the stage of a chess game after major reduction of forces
also
: the final stage of some action or process
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Examples of endgame in a Sentence
they're now in the endgame of the negotiations for a new labor contract
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But how Hamas’ defeat will be measured and an invasion’s endgame remain unclear.
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Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel, and Sam Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2023
As war expands, Israel's endgame is no clearer Murad is one of at least 56 people indicted on similar charges.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
At the less emotional policy level, Dr. Zogby says frustration is building with the Biden administration for not pushing Israel harder to conduct its military campaign and articulate an endgame in a way that can draw in Israel’s Arab neighbors instead of alienating them.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
World & Nation What do Hamas and Israel see as the endgame?
—A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
Yet Arab and Western leaders insist that the PA has to be part of the Gaza endgame.
—Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
Still others will question whether China would be amenable to such a relationship, given its leaders’ conviction that Washington’s endgame is to destroy Chinese communism.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Yet as the strikes have dragged on, analysts and even some striking workers have begun to raise a pivotal question: Does Fain have an endgame to bring the strikes to a close?
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
The case itself involves the sitting president’s administration prosecuting his potential opponent over the endgame of their prior election contest.
—The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
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Isabel Debre, Julia Frankel, and Sam Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2023
As war expands, Israel's endgame is no clearer Murad is one of at least 56 people indicted on similar charges.
—Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
At the less emotional policy level, Dr. Zogby says frustration is building with the Biden administration for not pushing Israel harder to conduct its military campaign and articulate an endgame in a way that can draw in Israel’s Arab neighbors instead of alienating them.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
World & Nation What do Hamas and Israel see as the endgame?
—A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
Yet Arab and Western leaders insist that the PA has to be part of the Gaza endgame.
—Assaf Orion, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
Still others will question whether China would be amenable to such a relationship, given its leaders’ conviction that Washington’s endgame is to destroy Chinese communism.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
Yet as the strikes have dragged on, analysts and even some striking workers have begun to raise a pivotal question: Does Fain have an endgame to bring the strikes to a close?
—Tom Krisher, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
The case itself involves the sitting president’s administration prosecuting his potential opponent over the endgame of their prior election contest.
—The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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