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last word

noun as in authoritative statement

adjective as in extremely stylish

noun as in last word

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Example Sentences

Those were fortunately my last words at the hearing and the interpreter then left the room.

That would mean less turf war over who has the last word and more collaboration about data rights, consumer rights, and who benefits financially.

From Time

“Her last words were, um, to tell her kids that she loved them,” she said haltingly, overcome with emotion.

The bystander video of the incident, with Floyd muttering his last words, “I can’t breathe,” sparked racial justice protests around the globe.

From Vox

These theories are tremendously successful, but we know they are not the last word.

She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.

The last word on same-sex marriage has not yet been written by the Court.

It is hard because one wants to love every last word of this book, instead of just seven-eighths of them.

Most importantly, I need to hold on to the belief that God will have the last word, and that word is hope.

And it is Lane, an aggrieved father, who gets the last word.

And the maxim of laissez faire became the last word of social wisdom.

As she said the last word, she looked at Baroudi, and her voice seemed to linger on the word as on a word beloved.

Do not accompany them to the dressing-room, and never stop them in the hall for a last word.

This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.

A more important matter, however, regarded the right of the prisoner to have the last word.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to last-word, such as: à la mode, all the rage, chic, contemporary, current, and dashing.

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

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