1
as in to end
to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point
try to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time
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2
as in to stop
to come to an end
her speeches usually wind up with one last joke
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as in ending
the last part of a process or action
wait until the windup of your sales pitch before giving up any information about the product's price point
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Recent Examples of wind up
David Wilson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The movie winds up being about how none of us really know each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
It should be noted that since there were no baserunners, Vásquez was pitching from his windup for the final 11 of his 12 consecutive outs.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Verb
The defense stuck with Hill, who ran a shallow route, and Waller wound up uncovered in the end zone for his second touchdown of the game.
—David Wilson, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
The movie winds up being about how none of us really know each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
So there was a full windup leading to this week’s announcement.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
It should be noted that since there were no baserunners, Vásquez was pitching from his windup for the final 11 of his 12 consecutive outs.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wind up
Verb
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The arteries end at the capillaries.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Arkansas Educational Freedom Accounts could cost the state more than $326 million during the fiscal year that ends June 30, according to information provided by the state Department of Education.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The traffic itself generally keeps moving rather than fully stopping.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Fighting on the island had stopped, so the soldiers in the picture were not under fire, and the action of raising the flag (there is a movie of it) took all of a few seconds.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Unlike Peacemaker season one — which is completely DCU, besides the ending and one or two mentions of different things — The Suicide Squad brings up more questions than answers.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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To put it into perspective, the structure of Hades II necessitates that players conquer both routes of its story, and multiple times at that to reach the true ending.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Having finished the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado and California’s Sierra Range — including Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Lower 48 states at 14,500 feet — the next stop for the renowned Spanish endurance athlete is Mount Shasta in northern California, near the Oregon border.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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They’re set to expire in December, and while Congress could act to extend them, a prolonged government shutdown threatens to delay or derail that effort, leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing coverage.—
Beth Warren,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Subban won the Norris Trophy that season, and, once that bridge deal expired, had an arbitration hearing.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Just two years after Riverdale came to its dramatic conclusion, Archie Andrews is plotting his return to television screens once again — and, this time around, things are about to get a whole lot spookier.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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The authors reached their conclusions after analyzing data from the Trøndelag Health Study.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The Royal Caribbean cruise ship facing a norovirus outbreak while at sea docked at PortMiami early Thursday morning, concluding a 13-night voyage.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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The process concludes with compression and storage.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Trouble in Mind Records, the Chicago label that specialized in punk and garage-rock for more than a decade, has ceased operations.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
26 Sep. 2025
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All her fraudulent welfare handouts ceased in January 2025.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Wind up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wind%20up. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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