as in final
coming or happening at a later time
our eventual success She lost to the eventual champion. This plant reaches an eventual height of 15 feet.
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After backstopping the Montreal Canadiens’ most recent Stanley Cup win in 1993, a strained relationship with coach Mario Tremblay blew up in December 1995 when Tremblay left Roy in the net for nine Red Wings goals in an eventual 11-1 loss to Detroit.
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
Google hasn’t specified if there will be an eventual end date.
—PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Muniz and Seinfeld star Julia Louis Dreyfus took to the stage to announce the nominees for Favorite TV Actress, which included Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five), Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Brandy (Moesha), and the eventual winner, Bynes (All That and The Amanda Show).
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The plant received extensions on its eventual decommissioning, which is scheduled for 2030.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
Google hasn’t specified if there will be an eventual end date.
—PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Muniz and Seinfeld star Julia Louis Dreyfus took to the stage to announce the nominees for Favorite TV Actress, which included Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five), Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Brandy (Moesha), and the eventual winner, Bynes (All That and The Amanda Show).
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
The plant received extensions on its eventual decommissioning, which is scheduled for 2030.
—Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eventual
Adjective
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The Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh occupied a precarious position for the next three years, cut off from the world, until a final offensive in 2023 sent nearly all 100,000+ residents fleeing into Armenia, abandoning an area Armenians had occupied for several millennia.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Sep. 2025
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What looked like a fair fight in the early 2010s — Everton finished above Liverpool in the final two seasons of Moyes’ first spell in charge — is very different in 2025.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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The video is the latest in a lengthy stream of controversies the probation department has faced in recent years.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2023
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The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.—
Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 Feb. 2023
Adjective
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The ultimate testament to comfort and durability, a reviewer even hiked 500 miles from France to Spain on the Camino de Santiago with them.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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This 27-inch display has 5K IPS panel and is being pitched as the ultimate external display for Mac users who want Apple Studio Display-caliber performance for half the price.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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In the hours after Kirk's shooting, reports emerged that his alleged killer Tyler Robinson came from a conservative family and even held conservative beliefs of his own, but new evidence in the case being built against Robinson contradicts that latter claim.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Sep. 2025
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That latter number is the third-highest slugging percentage with RISP in the majors.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Adhere to the two-second rule for maintaining a safe following distance behind the vehicle in front of you.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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Following his arrest on May 2, Hinton gained a following online and raised thousands in multiple fundraisers on an online crowdfunding platform, GiveSendGo.—
David Ferrara,
The Enquirer,
14 July 2025
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Nish Kumar and Mark Watson deliver a surprisingly catchy little ditty, but the real crowning moment comes when Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea, and Sally Phillips take the stage.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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Civil contributes his own piano playing too — notably a Bach hymn that serves as the story’s crowning moment of failure as triumph.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Eventual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eventual. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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