as in epilogue
a dull or disappointing ending or result
The last chapter of the book was an anticlimax.
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Recent Examples of anticlimax
Still, in the warped logic of conspiracy culture, that anticlimax didn’t kill the narrative.
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
Not that anyone really said that in the two-and-a-half-hour community-board meeting, which ended — unsurprisingly — in an anticlimax.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 June 2025
Her attitude is less one of fear than of gnawing bitterness at the anticlimax of her ending.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
After months of high-profile proceedings in the lower courts – at one point the medication, mifepristone, was almost pulled from the market entirely – the case ended in a judicial anticlimax.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
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epilogue
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Another piece of evidence from the theory points out how Dustin's girlfriend Suzie (Gabriella Pizzolo) and Robin's (Maya Hawke) girlfriend Vickie (Amybeth McNulty) are both missing from the finale epilogue.—
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The hit Netflix show ended its nine-year run with a long, emotional, very ’80s epilogue.—
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“Anticlimax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anticlimax. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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