finale

noun

fə-ˈna-lē How to pronounce finale (audio)
Definition of finalenext
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 It's been a while since Hooters was in the sport after getting evicted from the series last season (true story), but the girls are back for this weekend's finale in Homestead. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 Beaten by Penn State and LSU in back-to-back weeks, Gerry Faust resigned as Notre Dame head coach but stayed on for the 1985 season finale against Miami. — Dana Oneil, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 Disney+ and Hulu have dropped the first four episodes with two new episodes available every Wednesday from November 11 through to the series finale on November 25. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026 Because the Los Angeles Football Club played its home finale like Fan Appreciation Day meant nothing, the team’s last regular season appearance on Saturday will be worth exactly that. — Josh Gross, Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for finale
Recent Examples of Synonyms for finale
  1. ending
  2. conclusion
  3. end
  4. culmination
Noun
  • This script justifies that lame happy ending with a clever idea about the radiation sickness that results from suffering a blast of the creature’s atomic breath.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Club Kid takes some surprising turns on the way to its delicately shaded ending.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of ending
Noun
  • That requires testing whether signals have predictive value, examining them together and avoiding automatic conclusions about individual behaviors.
    — Artem Lalaiants, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Laster also suggested that the company’s financial advisors had data disputing our conclusions.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of conclusion
Noun
  • The nation's clocks went back an hour Sunday as daylight saving time came to an end.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • His decision to pick Vance opened up a special election in Ohio that will by the end of this week cost the GOP hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially a Senate seat.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of end
Noun
  • In Wisconsin, Crowley, a moderate Democrat, defeated Republican challenger Tom Tiffany in the culmination of a governor's race that played out in one of the country's most purple states.
    — News Editor, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Spencer characterized the Stevens-Rogers appearance as the culmination of an increasingly personal dispute rather than a substantive disagreement over policy.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of culmination

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