anticlimax

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Recent Examples of anticlimax When the cousins leave the tour to find the house where their grandmother grew up, they are headed for an anticlimax. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024 But the measures that Beijing’s economic planning agency announced this week proved to be an anticlimax — the trillions of yuan that observers were hoping would be revealed never materialized. Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024 With Ramos’ catch evoking memories of Mays’ greatest play, the Giants turned an anticlimax into a thriller. Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024 After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was on the verge of being pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax. Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for anticlimax
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anticlimax
epilogue
Noun
  • Entwistle’s film does in fact have one as well, but test screenings prompted him to add an epilogue, one that includes a surprise cameo that is discussed later on in this interview’s brief spoiler section.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
  • To save you the trouble, there’s no need to sit through the end credits; there is no surprise epilogue.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2025

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