FINALITY Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

finality

noun

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as in eventuality

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Recent Examples of finality There is little time to reflect with such a perilous path ahead, but on Monday, there was the first sense of finality. —

Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026 Kunzweiler, a phlegmatic, gray-haired career prosecutor a generation older, prized the finality of a jury verdict — and the punishment that went with it. —

Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026 But there was a distinct finality to this moment. —

Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026 The abrupt finality of the loss was particularly acute for the Wildcats, who finished 12-20 overall with a 3-15 Big 12 regular-season record. —

Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for finality

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Most of the preparation for this eventuality has involved updating RSA encryption to use the Module Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism—typically known as ML-KEM—a PQC algorithm based on problems that quantum computers have no advantage over classical computing in solving.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
Atwood's Testaments is a sequel to her Handmaid's Tale, however, not Miller's Handmaid's Tale, which over the course of six seasons far surpassed the bounds of its source, fabricating entirely new characters, storylines, and eventualities.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026