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finishing

adjective as in closing

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak match

adjective as in final

noun as in woodwork

Strongest matches

noun as in woodwork

Strongest match

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“But I’m finishing a paper,” a straight-A teen might say, in which case they would relent.

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There are nine qualifiers scheduled for Friday, including three in Group C, where leaders Benin, South Africa, Nigeria, Rwanda and Lesotho all have a mathematical chance of finishing first.

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It was simply his cue to unleash a ferocious finishing kick.

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When the actor got the part in Frankenstein, he was finishing Australian auteur Justin Kurzel’s miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about World War II military prisoners in a Japanese labor camp.

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Ivy League schools also figure prominently, with Yale University, Princeton University and Harvard University finishing third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

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