as in crossroads
the latest possible time
The killer's life was spared at the eleventh hour.
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During a period of intense change across fashion and footwear, many women leaders are at a crossroads.—
Katie Abel,
Footwear News,
4 May 2026 -
And those numbers, combined with Spoelstra’s love/hate relationship with the Adebayo/Ware tandem and his appreciation for undersized lineups, has created difficult questions that must be sorted out during a crossroads offseason for the Heat.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
4 May 2026
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The boy also had multiple blunt trauma injuries to his extremities that were in the process of healing, according to the medical examiner, which detected trace amounts of methamphetamine in the boy’s body.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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That series ended with a ruptured Achilles for superstar forward Jayson Tatum, and a battering ram taken to the extremities of a Celtics core that had claimed an NBA title just a season prior.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Athletic was invited to go behind the scenes of how a team prepares for their first-ever Grand Tour — planning stages, buying buses, last-minute emergencies and everything in between.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
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Emergency medical personnel should be available for emergencies.—
Nick Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
9 May 2026
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The ongoing crises of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, coupled with alcohol use, have made for a nightmarish liver landscape.—
Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 May 2026
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As with the previous 12 installments, where revenue served to support the shows’ out-of-work staff, the new episode’s proceeds will benefit the World Central Kitchen, an international nonprofit that provides meals during humanitarian crises.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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Already with Walker, Jalen Johnson, Dyson Daniels and the possible free-agency returns of Jonathan Kuminga and CJ McCollum, just imagine the possibilities (including trade possibilities) with Dybantsa, Peterson, Boozer, Wilson or Darius or Acuff as potential Atlanta selections.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
9 May 2026
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But at the peak of possibilities for the Wings is title contention.—
Annie Costabile,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
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Via one of popular music’s most stratospherically elevating climaxes, the song shifts into gospel overdrive with the explosive entrance of disco’s mightiest, most visceral vocalist, Loleatta Holloway.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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Anderson is here for the melodrama, the special lessons and the climaxes that fall flat.—
Jessica Lipsky,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, Walmsley went on, situations like the one in Arcadia are forcing an industry-wide reckoning.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Last season, the Royals thrived in these situations with a 33-19 record that was the third-best in baseball.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2026
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The intense temperature and pressure of the impact heated the moon's crust and mantle so much that many of the volatile elements present (volatiles are elements with low boiling points), including potassium, evaporated and escaped into space.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Thermodynamics drives selective recovery The researchers hypothesized that FJH combined with chlorine gas could exploit differences in Gibbs free energy and boiling points to selectively remove non-REE elements from magnet waste.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Eleventh hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eleventh%20hours. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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