eleventh hour

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Recent Examples of eleventh hour Raising property taxes — which Johnson flatly opposed during his mayoral campaign but was prepared to implement until the eleventh hour — will be just as politically fraught for the 2026 plan. Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025 The resulting policy uncertainty will be detrimental to U.S. businesses making investment and hiring decisions looking 3-4 years ahead rather than over the course of serial eleventh hour deadlines with major trading partners. Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025 The festival screened close to 3,000 films to curate its official selection, and programmers shoehorned big name after big name into its lineup right up to the eleventh hour. Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 May 2025 At the end of Season 3, after the two have successfully reinvented her persona and rebuilt her career, Deborah lands the late-night show of her dreams and promises to make Ava head writer, only to renege at the eleventh hour—prompting Ava to clinch the position via blackmail instead. Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for eleventh hour
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Noun
  • Stablecoins have, historically, flourished where there is economic instability and global crisis may further support the cross-border reliance on the stability of the U.S. currency.
    Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • After signing it Monday evening, Newsom heralded it as a solution to the state’s affordability crisis, which reached a fever pitch last year and peaked when a series of wildfires devastated Los Angeles in January, burning thousands of homes.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • What began as an emergency measure in rare cases has become a standard investigative tool used thousands of times each year.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Fort Lauderdale officials have not yet decided how to spend the money, although $4.8 million might go toward creating the city’s own emergency reserve in case the Federal Emergency Management Agency goes away.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • According to the warrant affidavit, an autopsy later found Eaton died of blunt impact injury of her head, neck, torso and extremities.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
  • Other victims included Javier Castillo, 15, of Central Islip, who was befriended by gang members only to be hacked with a machete in the head, neck, torso and extremities in an isolated marsh.
    Danielle Wallace, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • And the possibility of a split verdict here, at the least, is very real.
    Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz , Maria Paronich , Brendan McDonald, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • While Robinson could begin talking about a new deal with other teams when free agency opens around the league Monday at 6 p.m., returning to the Heat on a new contract also remains a possibility, according to a league source.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Is the Michelin star really in the bag, as Episode 3’s snowy climax would suggest?
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 1 July 2025
  • The Capricorn full moon on July 10th brings a climax in your friendship or community life.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • His situation has parallels with Carl Rushworth, who has run out of patience at the Amex Stadium.
    Andy Naylor, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • In recent days, China has appeared unwilling to become further entangled in the conflict past its diplomatic efforts, analysts say, instead using the situation as another opportunity to paint itself as a responsible global player and the US as a force for instability.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Fighting, however, continued up to the zero hour, with Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon far into the night.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
  • English learners can attend a specialized class for learning to speak and write can be accomplished with a before-school (zero hour) or after-school period.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Progress in Brussels: $9 Billion to Save 8 Million Lives On June 25th, the same day a NATO summit was taking place in Hague, the European Commission and the Gates Foundation helped rally world leaders and philanthropists to commit $9 billion at a landmark summit in Brussels.
    Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark decision.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025

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