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showdown
[ shoh-doun ]
showdown
/ ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn /
noun
- informal.an action that brings matters to a head or acts as a conclusion or point of decision
- poker the exposing of the cards in the players' hands on the table at the end of the game
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Gordon G. Chang is a Forbes.com columnist and the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World.
Regardless of how the showdown ends, it does serve a very clear signal of what the political climate will be in the next Congress.
Instead, it would set the stage for a massive showdown in February, when Republicans would control both the House and the Senate.
The ambiguity revolving around the event made it a poor candidate for a final showdown.
With Donetsk now encircled, the stage is set for a final and potentially very bloody urban showdown.
For the trade was not unduly worried as to the outcome in the event of a showdown.
One day they waited for him and brought matters to a showdown.
Then he'd have a two-gun showdown with those men like Sawtell and Lombard and the worthless cousins.
Maybe there was a showdown—and the wind-up of it is that Nick comes home meek as a six-year-old broke down in front.
But suppose this was a showdown between Lumbrilo and Asaki—whose side would these men take?
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