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finale

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


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Dudamel made Sunday’s grand finale a benefit concert for Venezuela to support earthquake relief.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

It remains to be seen how McVay handles the quarterback situation Thursday night in the preseason finale against the Chargers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Instead, this week’s tournament at Chatham Hills in Indiana was turned into the season finale with reduced prize money.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

This was a pre-season finale to forget for Manchester United.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

I do my imitation of the dance routine from TV and finish with the finale: Are you ready, boots?

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

For more than a decade, “Saturday Night Live” writers Colin Jost and Michael Che have marked breaks and finales with a joke swap segment.

From Salon May 17, 2026

I’m curious, Mary, as someone who has watched your share of series finales, how you felt about this conclusion and whether it served that mission.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2025

Cora had not seen him since the first night, but she had heard every speech of the Friday-night finales.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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