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denouements

noun

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plural of denouement

as in endings

formal the final part of something (such as a book, a play, or a series of events) In the play's denouement, the two lovers kill themselves. the competition's exciting denouement

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Recent Examples of denouements A number of denouements follow in All That’s Left of You, including a jump forward into 2022, when Hanan and Salim, who now live in Canada, go back to Jaffa and find Salim’s old family home, a run-down oasis of the past in a city determined to forget its history. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Instead, as far as endings for superhero stories go, Episode 8 has a lot of chatter.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2026
All That Jazz is one of my favorite endings to a movie of all time.

— Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of endings

Noun

Abdy and De Luca represent a filmmaking approach that isn’t solely defined by sequels and CGI.

— Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
Success can also open the door to sequels and franchises, although Balmaceda said those opportunities don’t necessarily have to be engineered from the beginning.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of sequels

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The most justifiable criticism against the DC detective series is that its mysteries play out wordily, without letting the audience in on how its space cops come to major conclusions.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
The expert stressed that the team's field work was complete but that laboratory analysis was still underway before broader conclusions could be drawn.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of conclusions

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Despite not being produced by instruments as such, the sequences Stanton found playing in his ears were strangely musical; their arrangement, through its patterning, the dynamism of its counterpoint and dissonance, almost symphonic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
The film will shoot on location in New York City (for sequences chronicling her arrival by ship and her Broadway musicals), the Brazilian city of Maricá (standing in for Los Angeles) and Rio.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

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