finishing
Britishnoun
Vocabulary lists containing finishing
Engineering - Middle School
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Engineering - High School
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Hawthorne went 2-8 last season, finishing fourth in the Ocean League and being outscored by 281 points.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Now this season is all about finishing in the top five for Slot, but Everton are a good side and, if they win this, they can reel Liverpool in.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
The result was six more seasons of finishing no better than third-to-last in their division.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
But even that might not stop the S&P 500 from finishing out the first half of the year, and the whole of 2026, with solid double-digit gains.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
“I’m not sure if these are going to work,” Dari said as we put the finishing touches on S’meggs, sticking random twigs into jumbo-size marshmallows.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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