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noun

denouement

the final part of a narrative in which matters are explained or resolved

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Six example sentences with denouement, each labelled with its topic.

  • The film spends two hours building tension and then rushes its denouement into ninety seconds of hurried voiceover.

    Movies

  • Readers waited three volumes for the denouement, only to learn that the missing heir had been the gardener throughout.

    Literature

  • The opera saves its denouement for a quiet duet, after four acts of storms, disguises and mistaken letters.

    Music

  • The game's denouement is a quiet epilogue in which every villager you helped turns up at the harbor to wave.

    Gaming

  • Historians treat the treaty as the war's denouement, the chapter in which every secret alliance is finally explained.

    History

  • The inquiry's final report served as the scandal's denouement, laying out who knew what and exactly when.

    Politics

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