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What is the verb for final?

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finalize
  1. (transitive) To make final or firm; to finish or complete.
  2. (computing) To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This allows you to look it over and make sure it's exactly what you want before you finalize the report.”
      “In it, the government said it would finalize a plan to cope with the uncooperative debtors by the end of next March.”
      “That said, a verbal agreement may not be held up in court if the client asks for a formal written agreement to finalize the contract.”
finalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of finalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Up until now we've had to go to court, even if it's just with consent orders, to finalise property settlements.”
      “Once in office, he quickly moved to finalise the accord, in order to end the legal cases and protect the military brass.”
      “As a result it proceeded to finalise the definition of the scope of this category without any input from this important practitioners' group.”
finalises
finalizes
finalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of finalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Sources close to the development said the process is currently in advanced stages of talk and is expected to be finalised very soon.”
      “On Friday last, 32 people that were made redundant left the company but these redundancies had been finalised before the takeover.”
      “The pre-season friendlies cannot be finalised either until City have some kind of guarantee over the long term.”
finalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of finalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The schism between the churches was finalized in 1204 when crusaders captured Constantinople.”
      “The Act seems to apply where the bank has agreed to grant the customer an overdraft but has not finalized details of the arrangement.”
      “New York and Texas finalized the terms of a trade Sunday, and the players' association gave its approval.”
finalizing
  1. present participle of finalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps this is what prompted Veblen's letter to prod Moore into dropping the matter and finalizing his dissertation for publication.”
      “We talked for an hour and a half, only briefly touching on the subject of finalizing the tentative plans we'd made, and then he had to be off.”
      “Trades are possible as the August 31 deadline for finalizing postseason rosters nears.”
finalising
  1. present participle of finalise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “An evidential rushed effort to complete telling the tale seem to plagued the book's finalising chapters.”
      “In her spare time she has taken up crochet and ceramics, while finalising plans for her latest business ventures and the return of St Martha.”
      “The council is currently finalising details of the plans with the developer and is expected to rubber stamp planning permission any day.”
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