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also dénouements
as in endings
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the final part of something (such as a book, a play, or a series of events)
In the play's denouement, the two lovers kill themselves. the competition's exciting denouement
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Recent Examples of denouements
A number of denouements follow in All That’s Left of You, including a jump forward into 2022, when Hanan and Salim, who now live in Canada, go back to Jaffa and find Salim’s old family home, a run-down oasis of the past in a city determined to forget its history.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denouements
Noun
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In an episode filled with tragic endings for various characters, including Rue herself, Faye sees some kind of hope on the horizon.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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So no, Deborah was never going to die, and there were never any alternate endings beyond what wound up on screen.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Colbert’s goodbye — running some 17 minutes over — was ambitious in a way that other TV late night finales were not.—
Mark Kennedy,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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This misery-making helped Hantz brute-force his way to two successive finales.—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Noun
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Like most sequels, Beckham’s second act with the Giants will likely pale in comparison to the original.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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As in those sequels, there's a new core four in town.—
Entertainment Weekly,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 June 2026
Noun
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For the United States, that fact leads to several conclusions.—
Olivia White,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Arab producers are drawing their own conclusions, redirecting supply chains away from Gulf chokepoints and investing in rail corridors linking inland production facilities to ports far removed from the current theater of conflict.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The Netflix dating experiment that promised love sight unseen has produced one of its darkest aftermaths yet.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Instead, headlines focus on tragedies and their painful aftermaths instead of prevention.—
Laura Carno,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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One of my favorite sequences to do was the Bullseye versus Fake Bullseye in Episode 8.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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There were a lot of montage sequences that didn’t make the final cut, simply because of time.—
Carita Rizzo,
Deadline,
1 June 2026
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“Denouements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denouements. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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