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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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"We're finishing the job, and I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer, to do the job."

From BBC

In January, construction work restarted after the high court had ruled that stopping would cause more damage than finishing the project at this late stage.

From BBC

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

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