denouement

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Recent Examples of denouement Not in the sense of maximising their chances of lifting the trophy, though defeats in the last two FA Cup finals have marked out Pep Guardiola’s side as surprisingly beatable at the denouement of this particular competition. — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 15 May 2026 Her plea will spare a lengthy discovery period and likely mark the legal denouement of a federal probe that shook Sacramento after the FBI recorded dozens of lobbyists in the summer of 2024 as part of the investigation. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026 Over the course of the series’ six episodes, their relationship waxes and wanes, but continues to cast a shadow over their fates until the finale’s electrifying denouement. — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026 The series begins in 1933 when Gies takes a job working for Frank and follows her through the outbreak of the war, the ordeal of occupation and the melancholy denouement that sees Otto emerge as the lone survivor from the attic. — David Faris, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for denouement
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Noun
  • James Newton Howard Howard composed the emotional finale of the film.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Three-plus weeks out from the season finale, which ended on a sizable cliffhanger, there’s been no word from FX on the show’s status.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In another series, in another era, those developments might have led to teachable moments and inspiring speeches, and the most bittersweet beats of the series are the ones that suggest how a happier ending could have come to pass.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But that wasn’t the ending that Showalter and his team originally intended.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • And your job as a writer is to put some order onto those pieces, but not necessarily to draw some giant conclusion about them.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The league, however, did not publicly identify the standard used to reach that conclusion.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Abdy and De Luca represent a filmmaking approach that isn’t solely defined by sequels and CGI.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Universal has been moving at pace on the sequel and has a script by returning scribe David Koepp.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Videos of the aftermath of Wednesday’s attack, circulating online, showed the pilot on the floor bleeding, and passengers said he had been stabbed.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In February 2020 behavioral ecologist Mickey Pardo witnessed the aftermath of an elephant birth.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Denouement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denouement. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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