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1
as in finished
to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point
try to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time
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2
as in ended
to come to an end
her speeches usually wind up with one last joke
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Recent Examples of wound up
One group left, signed a treaty and wound up in Oklahoma,.
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Which wound up not being the case?
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
But during their kiss, police swooped in to clear the crowd and wound up separating McSweeney from her kissing partner.
—Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Those buyers wound up with a new car payment of $907, on average, compared to an industry average of $767 in the third quarter, Edmunds reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Oftentimes, Tupac and Gault wound up whiling away lunch (and beyond) at the Old Town Mall, a run-down shopping center two hops and a skip from Dunbar.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Weeks later, the check wound up back at Clodfelter’s County Hall office, unsigned and uncashed.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
The animals that wound up in the shelter, some strays and a few surrendered by owners who couldn’t care for them, were unlikely to get adopted; anyone in Pecos who wanted a dog probably already had three.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
That brush-off on top of Chris somehow edging her out of the Olympic team so that Tunde wound up as an alternate was too much not to go nuclear.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Which wound up not being the case?
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
But during their kiss, police swooped in to clear the crowd and wound up separating McSweeney from her kissing partner.
—Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Those buyers wound up with a new car payment of $907, on average, compared to an industry average of $767 in the third quarter, Edmunds reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Oftentimes, Tupac and Gault wound up whiling away lunch (and beyond) at the Old Town Mall, a run-down shopping center two hops and a skip from Dunbar.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Weeks later, the check wound up back at Clodfelter’s County Hall office, unsigned and uncashed.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
The animals that wound up in the shelter, some strays and a few surrendered by owners who couldn’t care for them, were unlikely to get adopted; anyone in Pecos who wanted a dog probably already had three.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
That brush-off on top of Chris somehow edging her out of the Olympic team so that Tunde wound up as an alternate was too much not to go nuclear.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wound up
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Leeds finished fourth in 1991, added to their squad and went on to win the title a year later.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Alker finished 12th in Little Rock but parlayed a tie for second place two weeks later at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship into his second Schwab Cup title in three years.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Oct. 2025
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Portland, meanwhile, overcame slipping into the wild-card round with a heavy defeat in the regular-season finale and bounced back with a 3-1 win of its own that ended Real Salt Lake’s season.—
Avi Creditor,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Its protagonist—unnamed, like those in Pond and Checkout 19—is a writer who has recently ended a doomed affair with an older man, Xavier.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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Research is ongoing and is being headed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and directed by Manuel Pérez Rivas, a press release concluded.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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The delicate investigation at the site of the plant has concluded, but determining a cause could take months more, said Brice McCracken, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ special agent in charge at the National Center for Explosives Training and Research.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Tony & Ziva, has officially wrapped up its debut season.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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The series wrapped up its first season, which stars Brooks along with sisters Mary Holland, Grace Ann and Sarah Jane Nader in September.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Asics is picking up where its 2022 Actibreeze 3D sandals left off for a futuristic new mule designed in collaboration with longtime brand partner Kiko Kostadinov.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Jaak Panksepp, another neuroscientist, picked up where Diamond left off, beginning in the 1970s.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Wound up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wound%20up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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