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finale

[fi-nal-ee, -nah-lee] / fɪˈnæl i, -ˈnɑ li /


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In the finale, Tamara Toumanova, a legend of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, is a streetwalker dancing by lamplight.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Talking about the “Pluribus” season finale, she said that while she’s never murdered anyone, she has felt out-of-control rage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

If he loses in October, Lula would leave office without the triumphant finale he seeks, but with an enduring legacy.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

The Geoff Hurst hat-trick goal was a great finale to a splendid occasion.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Well, I’ve decided that the spring concert is going to be all Latin music, and that song is going to be the finale.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

No matter the strengths of AI, a chatbot cannot dream up stories with flawed characters and themes and arcs and failures and triumphs—with ambiguous finales.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

But the ones I found most interesting were finales I don’t remember encountering in Baseball Digest.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Long before CBS announced it was pulling the plug on “The Late Show,” its host Stephen Colbert had already laid claim to helming one of late-night’s greatest finales.

From Salon May 21, 2026

And while 2026 will bring plenty of those, it will also yield revivals, new seasons of beloved shows, spinoffs and long-awaited finales.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 2, 2026

He rarely showed up when a particular movie was about to begin, so he’d seen beginnings, finales, and middles of dozens of movies, but hardly any in their entirety.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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