: end, conclusion
… rather than a finis, there was a petering-out of funds and energy and a creeping-in of decay.—
Ronald Blythe
Ronald BlytheThe debilitating back ailment that afflicted him last season could have spelled finis to [=could have ended] his career.—Stan Fischler
—typically used like "the end" to mark the conclusion of something, such as a book or movieStan Fischler… the book lay open before me at the last page, where was written 'Finis.'—Charlotte Brontë
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Examples of finis in a Sentence
if the two countries keep up their arms race, the inevitable finis to their rivalry will be their mutual destruction
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But no one is calling this a finis.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2022
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Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2022
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“Finis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/finis. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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