as in crisis
the last possible time when something can be done
You shouldn't wait until the last minute before planning your retirement. They were making changes to the show right up to the last minute.
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Daisy Jones & the Six chronicles the rise and fall of a group fronted by two charismatic lead singers—Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne—and their journey from obscurity to fame, complete with romantic tensions, personal crises, and drug problems.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025 -
Climate crisis supercharging typhoons The western Pacific is the most active tropical basin on Earth but global ocean temperatures have been at record levels for each of the last eight years.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Speaking at the scene of the Huntingdon attack on Sunday morning, BTP Superintendent John Loveless said the suspect was arrested within eight minutes of the first emergency call being received.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
3 Nov. 2025
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Patrick Penn, Deputy Under Secretary Food Nutrition and Consumer Services for USDA, said in a court filing Monday that the department chose not to tap other emergency funds to ensure there’s not a gap in child nutrition programs for the rest of this fiscal year, which runs through September 2026.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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While Hawke, who played Manson family member Linda Kasabian/’Flowerchild’, did not end up barefoot in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, her co-star Margaret Qualley famously showed off her lower extremities in the film.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The next day, two partial sections of lower extremities were found on the shoreline.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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After Maggie and Paul were shot to death on June 7, 2021, Alex was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during a violent crime, earning two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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And Mamdani’s promised rent freeze faces multiple hurdles — including the possibility that outgoing Mayor Eric Adams will stack the Rent Guidelines Board with his own appointees who won’t go along with a freeze.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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But for the two-hour show’s climax, stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo veered deliciously off-topic to cover a medley of songs first made famous 62 years ago by Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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Some areas, like a beach that plays a major role in the climax, are based on real places and drew from the plants and fish that are there in real life.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025
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At the eleventh hour, the city's streetcar, The Hop, also made a cameo.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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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.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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In a first for the China Space Station, crew members from the Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 missions have used a new oven to cook and enjoy a space barbecue, marking a milestone in comfort and innovation aboard the station.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Global Times compared the cooking milestone to one notched aboard the ISS in 2019, when NASA astronauts baked cookies in space using a prototype Zero G oven.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 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 King video marked the zero hour for new forms of activism using cameras.—
Will Potter
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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