ultimate
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The Fifa Council would make the ultimate decision, but there are no signs it is something expected to be made imminently.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The third flaw is that corporate insiders are not spending their own money on shares — which is the ultimate sign of confidence.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“No matter what team ... I see myself being a great teammate, being a great person, and the ultimate goal is to win a World Series.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
But the ultimate effects of the administration’s efforts won’t be limited to alternative assets, and the outcome is far from certain.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even if the zeros at the center of black holes don’t provide an easy way to travel through space, the zero of quantum mechanics provides an alternative: the zero-point energy might be the ultimate fuel.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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This prepared physicists to accept as fact that the three ultimates of nature�photons, protons and electrons�are all radiant, vibrating particles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If there are ultimates and indefinables in this world of ours, self-consciousness may as fairly claim the dignity or avow the discredit as any other of the list.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
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