eleventh-hour

See also: eleventh hour

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eleventh-hour (not comparable)

  1. Just before it is too late; in the nick of time; last-minute.
    • 2008 November 5, Bryan Walsh, “George W. Bush's Last Environmental Stand”, in Time:
      Eleventh-hour executive changes are not unique to this outgoing Administration — President Bill Clinton launched a number himself before leaving office.
    • 2018, Nicole Seymour, “Acknowledgments”, in Bad Environmentalism, page 236:
      Cal State Fullerton students Chenglin Lee and Samuel Ortiz saved me with eleventh-hour bibliographic assistance.
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