eleventh hours

noun

plural of eleventh hour
as in crossroads
the latest possible time The killer's life was spared at the eleventh hour.

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  1. crossroads
  2. extremities
  3. emergencies
  4. crises
  5. possibilities
  6. climaxes
  7. situations
  8. boiling points
Noun
  • While Wilson was only speaking for the defense, his theme accurately describes the crossroads the Giants have reached as a team here in early October.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Indiana is well positioned to compete, literally as the crossroads of America.
    — Jeff Danielson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of crossroads
Noun
  • The driver then reversed, freeing the man, who suffered severe injuries to his lower extremities.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The man had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his extremities, including his arms and legs.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of extremities
Noun
  • Lewbel says that, by the end of 2026, the company's law enforcement customers will be required to use case codes for searches, with exceptions for emergencies, and a tool that flags unusual searches for agency administrators.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The school system has added staff in support of this approach, while simultaneously banning school police officers from campus except in emergencies and sharply reducing the size of the school police force.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of emergencies
Noun
  • Expectations around workload and external factors, including international conflicts and crises, are contributing to these heightened anxieties.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Presenhuber added that economic crises and global politics seem continue to dampen her clients’ moods overall—and their spending.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of crises
Noun
  • Omelchenko appreciates the study authors’ ability to translate math to real life but notes that fully evaluating the possibilities of new stitches by using torus diagrams would be impractically expensive to compute.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
  • These are demarcated spaces that harbor countless possibilities and contain the infinite, as if in a story by Jorge Luis Borges.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of possibilities
Noun
  • The Mannings’ mission climaxes with Rudd and Hathaway coaching them out of the building before Goodell and his security staff catch them.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
  • As the drama with Salt Lake City climaxes, the rest of the Girls Trip women start to wonder if there’s more to the story than Lisa let on.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of climaxes
Noun
  • Facing third-and-long situations all day, Philo and the offense looked ordinary.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The commission voted 7-1 to direct County Attorney Tyrone Wade to look into whether any laws or policies were broken during the consent agenda vote and whether any policies should be adjusted to prevent similar situations in the future.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of situations
Noun
  • The intense temperature and pressure of the impact heated the moon's crust and mantle so much that many of the volatile elements present (volatiles are elements with low boiling points), including potassium, evaporated and escaped into space.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Thermodynamics drives selective recovery The researchers hypothesized that FJH combined with chlorine gas could exploit differences in Gibbs free energy and boiling points to selectively remove non-REE elements from magnet waste.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
Definition of boiling points
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“Eleventh hours.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eleventh%20hours. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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