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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Recent Examples of eventual
His eventual nominee, if confirmed, will face a host of challenges, including continued oversight of Boeing and staffing up and modernizing air traffic control.
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Leslie Josephs,michael Sheetz, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
The eventual responsible parties are now in the midst of a remediation costing over $50 million.
—Edward J. Gilliss, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Tituba learns the power of herbs and healing from a wise elder in Barbados and her knowledge of the natural world leads to her eventual accusation of witchcraft in America.
—Anita Kopacz, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
At the same time, parties of eventual global conflict are clearly looking at the worst scenario in perspective.
—Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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Leslie Josephs,michael Sheetz, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
The eventual responsible parties are now in the midst of a remediation costing over $50 million.
—Edward J. Gilliss, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
Tituba learns the power of herbs and healing from a wise elder in Barbados and her knowledge of the natural world leads to her eventual accusation of witchcraft in America.
—Anita Kopacz, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
At the same time, parties of eventual global conflict are clearly looking at the worst scenario in perspective.
—Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eventual
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The decision in the final weeks of President Joe Biden's administration sets up a fight over the future of California's vehicle regulations.David Shepardson, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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The final game was another sellout of 18,519, as Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo posted a triple double—26 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists.Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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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
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There's one ultimate archvillain of the Yuletide season: the twisted and terrible Grinch, who lurks in his cave far above the town of Whoville, hatching a fiendish scheme to ruin everyone's Christmas.EW.com, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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On his journey to figure out how to fix it, T meets vibrant individuals along the way, trying to converse and pick others’ brains to achieve his ultimate goal – to protect all his possessions.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Regulators have also challenged Amazon’s investments in Anthropic and even Microsoft’s modest investment in Mistral, though these latter two have been cleared.Rob Toews, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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This latter production decline was previously only set to last through 2025.Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Rogan developed a following first and foremost as a comedian, a mixed-martial-arts personality, and a dude who’s really into galaxy-brain ideas, weird conspiracy theories, and his own beliefs about the world, some of which are noxious.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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The series’ increasing scale and globe-trotting in its following seasons unfortunately resulted in Ryder being sometimes siloed from the main action; so many of her romantic-relationship beats and her obsessive concern for Will feel like regurgitations of her season-one arc.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Eventual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eventual. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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