cliff-hangers

plural of cliff-hanger
as in thrillers
something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome finally, a Super Bowl game that turned out to be a real cliff-hanger

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Recent Examples of cliff-hangers The biggest key to the success of minidramas, though, is the cliff-hangers, which push viewers to keep paying for the next episode. Yixuan Tan, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025 Which means there are some major cliff-hangers to obsess over for the next few weeks. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
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thrillers
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  • Our fears showed up in the movies, too, in Cold War dramas like Sidney Lumet’s 1964 Fail Safe or apocalyptic thrillers like Stanley Kramer’s 1959 On the Beach.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Neon also had two other films — both political thrillers — that were celebrated at Cannes and then proved popular in Telluride, as well.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Cliff-hangers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cliff-hangers. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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