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The word "conclude" is often employed to signal the culmination of reasoning or to mark the end of an argument in literary works. Authors use it both to draw inferences—arriving at a necessary judgment or hypothesis, as seen when a character deduces personal truths or communal outcomes [1] [2]—and to introduce final remarks that neatly wrap up their discourse [3] [4]. It functions as a verbal pivot, dynamically shifting from discussion to determination, whether in skeptical inquiry, philosophical exposition, or personal reflection [5] [6] [7]. In this way, "conclude" encapsulates both the act of summing up evidence and the art of transitioning to a definitive statement or closure.
  1. And from all this I conclude that I ought to spend all the days of my life without caring to inquire into what must happen to me.
    — from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
  2. “I conclude from that that I am deeply in love with you, and that I cannot pass six or seven hours in your company without longing to kiss you.”
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. Let me conclude this part with an extract, (some writer in the "Tribune," May 16, 1878): No one ever gets tired of the moon.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  4. This lesson shall conclude these pages; May it be blessed to future ages!
    — from The Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine
  5. And we can hence conclude by another process of reasoning—that there is but one such substance.
    — from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
  6. Your reason gave you the means to conclude that it was probable that he would do this wrong; you forgot, and yet wonder that he has done it.
    — from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
  7. And thus I conclude the analytical solution of the main question which I had proposed: How is metaphysics in general possible?
    — from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

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