as in crisis
the latest possible time
The killer's life was spared at the eleventh hour.
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Recent Examples of eleventh hour
Production on season one had fallen woefully behind schedule, as whole episodes were scrapped, scripts were written at the eleventh hour and producers, including Bell, began second-guessing the series’ tone.
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Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Last year, Season 2 premiered weeks before the presidential election in which Kamala Harris stepped into the Democrat candidacy in the eleventh hour.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
At the eleventh hour the seller refused to sign any warranties.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Without patent rights, an innovator could spend years developing a novel technology only to have a competitor swoop in and steal their invention at the eleventh hour.
—Kenneth Braithwaite, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Last year, Season 2 premiered weeks before the presidential election in which Kamala Harris stepped into the Democrat candidacy in the eleventh hour.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2025
At the eleventh hour the seller refused to sign any warranties.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Without patent rights, an innovator could spend years developing a novel technology only to have a competitor swoop in and steal their invention at the eleventh hour.
—Kenneth Braithwaite, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eleventh hour
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Protests erupted late last year after Iran's national currency, the rial, plunged to record lows, worsening a cost-of-living crisis.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2026
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But the agency has said the crewmember is stable, stressing that this is not a crisis situation.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Yoon argued that the exercise of presidential emergency powers cannot be treated as rebellion under the law.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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In response to Amber's heart-wrenching case, a Texas mom named Diana Simone had the idea to create an emergency system for abducted children, similar to a weather or civil defense alert.—
Emily Krauser,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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This ultimately caused the tissue in her extremities to die and amputation was likely.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Mainstream media and online discussion around OnlyFans often veers into a moral panic, lamenting that the extremity of some creators’ work, in an age when outrage and engagement lead directly to revenue, may have a corrupting influence on audiences.—
Katie Whyatt,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Thursday’s report is not the first time the possibility of Trump pardoning Combs has been publicly discussed.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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The principal cast and crew took the stage at the Globes in the climax of the night to receive the award for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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Tonight’s penultimate episode of season two feels like an anti-climax — not just a letdown generally, but the diametric opposite of a climax.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
11 Jan. 2026
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The situation is not all that different from that along the Mississippi, Missouri or Tennessee rivers, where a series of dams controls water flow.—
Amy Green,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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Doug Hendrickson posted on social media Thursday to explain his situation with Williams.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Nevertheless, this is an improvement on the zero hours that (many) men were doing 50 years ago.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
9 Nov. 2025
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The zero hour show begins at 1 p.m. ET and the main matches begin at 3 p.m. ET.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
12 July 2025
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The city skyline is seen with the landmark Taipei 101 building from a lookout point on Elephant Mountain in Taipei on April 14, 2025.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2026
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Facial dynamics were quantified using the Euclidean distance between facial landmarks from the resting expression and subsequent frames, with peak activation defined at the frame showing the largest acceleration of change.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Eleventh hour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eleventh%20hour. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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