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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By midafternoon the drama had reached its denouement .
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Deaths and disclosures, universal and particular, denouements both unexpected and inexorable, transvestite melodrama on all levels including the suggestive.
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In that story there is no denouement , just the relish in the fray itself.
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Jacinta is once again feeling rejected and persecuted when an unexpected turn in events brings about a happy denouement .
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Mischievously, he rounds off his account of the trial with a denouement of his own.
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Some months later, came the denouement .
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There was the opening trauma, the suspects, the who-done-it, and even a form of denouement .