End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Setting up is an antonym for end.
Setting up
Both terms in one sentence
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The series begins shortly before the war does (as in, the Saturday before the Lexington-Concord Battle that set it off) and follows it through to its end and setting up the fledgling nation.
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Skeletor is revealed to be alive at the end of the Masters of the Universe, setting up a sequel that never happened because the movie bombed.
Source: The End... Or Is It? -
The Rockies would end up winning their last two and the Brewers beat the Padres again the next day, setting up a one-game playoff in Colorado that was tied at 6 at the end of nine innings.
Source: Down to the Last Play
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Setting up and End. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/end/setting_up
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