finale
noun
the last piece, division, or movement of a concert, opera, or composition.
finales
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pluralof finale.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The program consisted of five short finales and looked, on paper, as the least imaginative gala in at least the last three decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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
