Ends
Opening
Opening noun - A favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place.
Both words in one sentence
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The movie opens with a giant green vault door opening and ends with it closing again.
Source: Film / Richie Rich - After opening the Configuration as a boy and causing the death of the Dursleys, he ends up... well, different.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Fanfiction - Red Herring: The opening narration implies that something else was the cause behind the creation of the Marvel Universe instead of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but this ends up not being the case.
Source: Comic Book / Marvel 1985
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