the tail end

noun

: the last part of something

She is at the tail end of her career.

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Key Background Musk and Trump have become closely aligned since the tail end of Trump’s campaign and after the billionaire spent more than $250 million before the election to elect Trump. —

Sara Dorn, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 Housing: Nashville has been at the tail end of skyrocketing housing prices since 2019. —

Rosalind Bowling, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024 Chassis 001 hasn’t been painted yet, but the photos show that its carbon-fiber body is just as curvaceous as the concept shown at the tail end of the last decade. —

Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2024 Anna was fresh off a month living and working on Denali as part of a high altitude mountain rescue crew, and Nina was a strong teenager fresh off the tail end of a full spring of 2.5-hour daily rowing workouts. —

Jamie Shandro, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the tail end

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