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The Dark Energy Survey (DES) recently released the final results of its two main probes of the expansion history: Type Ia Supernovae (SN) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). In this work, we explore the cosmological implications of these data in combination with external Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), and age-of-the-Universe information. The BAO measurement, which is