WRAPPING UP Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

wrapping up

verb

present participle of wrap up

as in ending

to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point a grand parade will wrap up the weeklong celebration

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as in summarizing

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) a reporter wrapped up the mayor's speech in a few sentences

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Recent Examples of wrapping up Meir, wrapping up her second flight to the space station, will have logged a total of 442 days in space, completing four spacewalks during the Crew 12 mission and three during an earlier stay. — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Hannah Einbinder got to the bra-shirt idea early, just as New York Fashion Week’s spring 2027 presentations were wrapping up. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 However, as the title suggests, the process of wrapping up his affairs illuminates political, professional and personal contours previously unseen, in remarkably surprising ways. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026 The New York Mets are wrapping up what has been a disaster of a season. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 After wrapping up its longest monthly losing streak on Wall Street in more than a decade, Google has started September by giving investors several reasons for optimism. — Mackenzie Sigalos,drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026 One of my favorite parts of staying at a nice hotel or spa is wrapping up in one of those thick, ridiculously plush towels after a shower. — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2026 The show world premiered Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in New York City in February 2024, wrapping up a limited engagement the following month. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 The tour still has plenty of runway left and will be running through September and wrapping up in early October with a show in San Francisco. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2026

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And most experts don’t think there will be much relief for homebuyers in the next year or so, absent some big changes, such as the war in Iran ending or oil prices dramatically falling.

— Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
That set up Ollie Gordon II’s TD run late in the third quarter, ending Miami’s 15-possession touchdown drought.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of ending

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Reasoning involves tasks such as summarizing unstructured information, interpreting ambiguous inputs and handling cases that cannot be fully anticipated.

— Giles Whiting, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Generative AI is largely used to assist in common workplace tasks, like summarizing emails or preparing presentations.

— Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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One&Only followed this with its villas winding up from the jetty to the central building at the peak, which houses the reception, boutique, and five distinctive dining options.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
More than 23 billion pairs of footwear are produced every year, with roughly a billion winding up in landfills.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of winding up

Verb

Look east and southeast after dark for the Great Square of Pegasus — four moderately bright stars (Scheat, Alpheratz, Markab and Algenib) outlining an enormous square.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
In 2025, Stephen Blumberg, the director of the CDC division that oversees the survey, published a memo outlining the redesign.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of outlining

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The sportswear giant announced the end of their relationship last month, concluding nearly two decades of sponsorship, which began when Mbappé was just nine years old.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Alyssa Lareau, who left the Civil Rights Division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section last year after concluding that anti-discrimination laws such as Title VI were no longer being faithfully enforced, was similarly torn.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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