as in ending
the last part of a process or action
the finale to the festivities was a grand display of fireworks
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Recent Examples of finale
The Barons solidified their case with an 11-1 victory over Marina in a Sunset League finale Friday at Marina High School.
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Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
Brown, a first-year head coach at West Ranch, has his team at 8-3, which is tied for first place with Castaic going into Friday’s regular-season finale against Hart at West Ranch.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Thirty-six of those series reached a Game 7, with the 3-1 team posting a 23-13 record in the finales.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
The Philadelphia 76ers kept their season alive with a 106-93 win over the Boston Celtics on Thursday at Xfinity Mobile Arena, forcing a winner-take-all finale on Saturday.
—Tobias Bass, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
Brown, a first-year head coach at West Ranch, has his team at 8-3, which is tied for first place with Castaic going into Friday’s regular-season finale against Hart at West Ranch.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Thirty-six of those series reached a Game 7, with the 3-1 team posting a 23-13 record in the finales.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
The Philadelphia 76ers kept their season alive with a 106-93 win over the Boston Celtics on Thursday at Xfinity Mobile Arena, forcing a winner-take-all finale on Saturday.
—Tobias Bass, New York Times, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finale
Noun
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This happy ending was by no means guaranteed, and Habermas’s work as a theorist and polemicist made an important contribution to it.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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With the biopic undergoing 22 additional shooting days last May to film a new ending, Deadline reported that Lionsgate was considering splitting the film into two parts.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
3 May 2026
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The chatbots then walked back some of their original conclusions, with Claude specifically noting that its original planning horizon was too short.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
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Officials have said the descriptions reflect observations made at the time and do not include conclusions about the nature of the phenomena.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Toward the end of 2023, Dukes was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase from west suburban Oak Brook to Chicago.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The Bruins managed to keep it tight through the end of the first, with the Sabres taking that 1-0 lead into the first intermission.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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The feat was the culmination of a shift—or, perhaps more aptly, a total disruption—in marathoning over the past few years, in which the eventual breaking of the mythical two-hour mark went from an impossibility to a guarantee.—
Alex Hutchinson,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
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The appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, appears to mark the culmination of a chaotic appointment process for a vacancy on the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, which controls Kansas City’s police department.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Finale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finale. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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