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finishing

British  
/ ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ /

noun

  1. football the act or skill of goal scoring

    Brattbakk's finishing is deadly
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Defending World Cup champions Argentina won the South American qualifying group by a big margin, finishing nine points ahead of second-placed Ecuador.

From BBC

Gold settled higher Tuesday, finishing the first quarter of the year on the positive side.

From The Wall Street Journal

OpenAI was weeks away from finishing work on a new AI model and needed to free up more computing resources to power the coding and enterprise products that would run on it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Colombian Diaz, a wiley mix of wicked dribbles, relentless running and potent finishing, ranks among the top players in Europe's major leagues for goals, assists, open-play chances created and attempted dribbles.

From BBC

Max flipped it back out to me as Sadie was finishing with the last of her customers and the people coming in for the midnight movies began to snag their seats.

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