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ultimate

[uhl-tuh-mit] / ˈʌl tə mɪt /




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The ultimate goal is to raise, by 3 feet, parts of flood-prone Highway 37, which connects Marin and Sonoma counties to Napa and Solano counties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Treasuries remain the ultimate safe haven in times of trouble including Thursday’s tech stock rout.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the Rays recognized that Baker’s ordinary statistics concealed a changeup that might become the ultimate weapon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But the ultimate outcome is that instead of supplementing annuities, people don’t buy them at all.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The way to achieve the ultimate liberation through lifelessness is to cease paying heed to the illusion of reality.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

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

In this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me.

From Time Magazine Archive

So I say to you that if you want to find happiness in this life, look with distrust upon all absolutes and ultimates, all hard and fast rules, all formulas and dogmas and "general principles."

From The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

Sin ultimates in sinner, and in this sense they are one.

From Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy


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