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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Noun
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Since the pandemic, South Florida’s housing crisis has only exacerbated the issue at already overwhelmed animal shelters.—
Amanda Rosa
April 9,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Concurrently, mental-health crises among teens have become legion.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Plans call for building a facility that can accommodate 350 people, with emergency shelter beds, sleeping cabins, and parking spaces for people who sleep in their vehicles.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Update your emergency kit and be sure to include enough food and water to last for 3 days for each person in your home.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Over time, your extremities go numb, which indicates the beginning of frostbite.—
Brad Stulberg,
Outside,
26 Mar. 2026
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Mercenaries occupy this gray zone at the extremities of human morality and experience.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Asked about the latter possibility, Alcantara responded carefully.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The possibility—the probability—of conflagration is on every Western mind.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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Brian Dutcher flew to Indianapolis on Thursday for the grand climax of the college basketball season.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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There’s plenty to like about this team despite its recent skid that came at the climax of a historic 10-game winning streak.—
Tim Cowlishaw,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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After all, there are so many things to paint in a kitchen, from cabinets to walls to trim, and making a painting mistake after everything is installed in the kitchen can ruin the final look in the eleventh hour.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Baltimore Ravens swooped in at the eleventh hour to get him, and the rest is history.—
Ernesto Cova,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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But the Avs responded, with Brent Burns — who was honored before the game for his 1,000-game streak that hit the milestone on Saturday in the road win over Dallas — forcing the action.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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The milestone occurred when the mission's Orion capsule was about 39,000 miles (62,764 kilometers) from the moon and roughly 232,000 miles (373,368 km) from Earth, a commentator said during NASA's Artemis 2 livestream.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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