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Recent Examples of finalitySo to ensure finality, the second pair agreed to join the first in upholding the lower decision, providing a clean path for the case to proceed to a higher court.—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025 Public chains like Ethereum offer probabilistic finality, meaning transactions can technically be reversed or reorganized for a short window.—Thiago Rüdiger, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 Goldie admired the bitter finality of extinctions, and the Earth’s deep breath before a new kind of life began, the details working themselves out to fit the times.—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025 Still, it’s been hard to ignore the daunting finality that has been creeping up on us for years.—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for finality
Yet the eventuality for which the Kremlin does not appear to have a plan is that Russia will be unable to translate its massive advantage in manpower and materiel into a decisive breakthrough—as has been the case since the war began.
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Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
That eventuality, seemingly far-fetched not long ago, is eerily plausible today.
For the foreseeable future, the two will be forever conjoined.
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Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
Manchester United had rejected several offers from City for fellow Lioness Grace Clinton but when the prospect of signing Park came about, negotiations regarding Clinton’s future turned a corner.
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