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last minute
[ min-it ]
noun
- the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
last-minute
noun
- modifier given or done at the latest possible time
last-minute preparations
Other Words From
- last-minute adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of last minute1
Example Sentences
Larry Kramer, the renowned activist and playwright, was invited to talk after a last minute cancelation.
After much frantic buzzing about the lot, he's located and changes his plans at the last minute.
But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.
It worked, but it was not a last-minute strategy, he insists.
Site agents, many of them former and future shift agents, know that everything changes at the last minute.
I told her I felt so dreadfully to think I had met the person I ought to have met four years ago, at the last minute, so.
Harry's heart stood still; was the ambuscade to be discovered at the last minute?
It was the first theater Bud had entered since he left San Jose, and at the last minute he hesitated, tempted to turn back.
He had quite recovered himself within the last minute or two, he was his cunning self again.
I shall remain until the last minute, certainly until I know what Elton's plans are.
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