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View definitions for last minute

last minute

phrase as in latest possible moment

adjective as in last-second

adjective as in final

noun as in last minute

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The bill will now start making its way through the Assembly, where it got hung up at the last minute last year, leading to some serious tension between Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.

Center Nicklas Backstrom had a huge day for Washington’s dynamic top line, too, scoring the Capitals’ final goal in the last minute of the second period and adding two assists.

They’re easy to order at the very last minute, easy to give from afar and they’ll spread the gifting fun out over weeks and months.

Larry Kramer, the renowned activist and playwright, was invited to talk after a last minute cancelation.

After much frantic buzzing about the lot, he's located and changes his plans at the last minute.

But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.

It worked, but it was not a last-minute strategy, he insists.

Site agents, many of them former and future shift agents, know that everything changes at the last minute.

I told her I felt so dreadfully to think I had met the person I ought to have met four years ago, at the last minute, so.

Harry's heart stood still; was the ambuscade to be discovered at the last minute?

It was the first theater Bud had entered since he left San Jose, and at the last minute he hesitated, tempted to turn back.

He had quite recovered himself within the last minute or two, he was his cunning self again.

I shall remain until the last minute, certainly until I know what Elton's plans are.

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to last-minute, such as: slow, backward, behind, behindhand, behind time, and belated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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