as in eventually
at a later time
we're making steady progress and may finally finish this project
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Recent Examples of finally
The locals sure aren't, with an increasing number of surfers finally catching on to the islands' stellar swells.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025
Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 11 May 2025
Will Luka finally realize that his poor conditioning was his beloved Dallas Mavericks’ main reason for foolishly giving him away, and, while the Mavericks were robbed in the deal, all this talk of weight issues was absolutely true?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
Bloodlines finally explains why the character is so familiar with Death’s plan, which has been the subject of plenty of fan theories over the past 25 years.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 May 2025
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 11 May 2025
Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 11 May 2025
Will Luka finally realize that his poor conditioning was his beloved Dallas Mavericks’ main reason for foolishly giving him away, and, while the Mavericks were robbed in the deal, all this talk of weight issues was absolutely true?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
Bloodlines finally explains why the character is so familiar with Death’s plan, which has been the subject of plenty of fan theories over the past 25 years.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 May 2025
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Adverb
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These incidents eventually forced each of them to resign from working at his Los Angeles-area home, according to the lawsuit.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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After nearly every distributor passed on A Real Pain, Topic chose to solely finance the feature, eventually selling it to Searchlight Pictures out of Park City.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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Banchero is already an all-star who will be an NBA MVP someday.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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This is a vital step not just for those currently facing a terminal diagnosis, but for the many Californians who aren’t sick now but may be someday.—
Christie Golemb,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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“Finally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finally. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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