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denouement

noun as in the end result

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Savage Coast uses this technique to great effect, especially as the novel builds to its determined, grimly triumphant dénouement.

If you'd like, for the dénouement, scream something at the top of your lungs that only a dog could hear.

He now expected with some impatience the dénouement of the comedy.

At the dénouement, he recalls this lesson read to him by the innocent girl, and applies it to his own experience.

For the reader's sake, and for my own as well, I shall pass hurriedly over the dénouement.

The most amusing part of the story consists in its dénouement.

The dénouement of the little drama was so amazingly unexpected, so unexpectedly ludicrous.

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