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
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
