as in crises
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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Gas is still cheaper than in several prior geopolitical crises and energy is a smaller share of people's expenses.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026 -
Structural adjustment programs devastated social services through budget cuts and user fees, creating barriers for the poor to access basic health care and education, while the liberalization of mining sectors caused severe environmental degradation and health crises.—
Sven van Mourik,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 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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Crisis often feels like the natural starting point for a story, and medical emergencies in particular have a way of stripping a person down to the nerve.—
Nina Mesfin,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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As the students rested at lunch tables, one officer described working patrol, responding to calls from minor incidents to emergencies.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Some version of this happens in all your books—an imagined future opens up new possibilities in the present.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Joey Muldowney, who was drafted two years ago by the Sharks, forward Jake Richard and defenseman Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg are other possibilities to go pro.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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Anderson is here for the melodrama, the special lessons and the climaxes that fall flat.—
Jessica Lipsky,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The band has never sounded this melodic before; Wroth in particular brings a constant dynamism to his guitar solos, often layering two and reaching climaxes that refuse to collapse into just a flurry of notes, building off Phantom Slaughter’s keyboard melodies with a real sense of drama.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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Now Tomasso carves out time every month to handwrite letters to workers, like cooks and dishwashers, who are celebrating major career milestones.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Other milestones include higher qubit counts — which increase the potential size and complexity of problems a quantum computer can represent and help solve — and coherence times, which allow more reliable computations by reducing the impact of noise and errors.—
Dylan Butts,Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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