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Recent Examples of finalityThe combination of a plea agreement and a suspension provides a finality, of sorts, to the blight hanging over the past 17 months.—Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2025 The longtime Moscow resident defended it as in the best interest of justice, and to ensure certainty and finality in the nearly three-year-old case.—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Aug. 2025 So to ensure finality, the second pair agreed to join the first in upholding the lower decision, providing a clean path for the case to proceed to a higher court.—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 21 Aug. 2025 Public chains like Ethereum offer probabilistic finality, meaning transactions can technically be reversed or reorganized for a short window.—Thiago Rüdiger, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for finality
Yet the eventuality for which the Kremlin does not appear to have a plan is that Russia will be unable to translate its massive advantage in manpower and materiel into a decisive breakthrough—as has been the case since the war began.
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Alexander Gabuev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 Aug. 2025
That eventuality, seemingly far-fetched not long ago, is eerily plausible today.
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