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Ultimatums aren't a great idea, unless you're really going to exercise the option.

From Salon • May 26, 2022

Ultimatums are sometimes deployed too soon or too late, and they sometimes spell the end of a relationship, but that doesn’t make them wholly bad or even ineffective.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2020

Ultimatums, like the one recently issued by British MP Alistair Burt, fuel that rhetoric.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2011

Ultimatums are not Franco's style, but when he so orders, the Cabinet jumps.

From Time Magazine Archive

We hope we have heard the last of the Emperor of Russia's Ultimatums, or Ultimata, just as you like to call it.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various