Thesaurus results for LAST MINUTE

last minute

noun

Definition of last minute

as in crisis

the last possible time when something can be done You shouldn't wait until the last minute before planning your retirement. They were making changes to the show right up to the last minute.

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Noun

In its examination of Haiti’s deepening crisis, the panel detailed how influential figures in Haitian society continue to support armed gangs.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
And then, largely as a byproduct of the scaremongering around the AIDS crisis, there was a sense of things going backwards.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of crisis

Noun

Airlines are generally required to carry crash axes in the cockpit that could be used in an emergency to break open a window to escape or break open a panel to access a fire.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Of late, the court seems to be making an effort to offer some limited explanations of its emergency docket rulings, but lower court judges, both liberal and conservative, complain that isn't enough to provide them with adequate guidance.

— Nina Totenberg, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of emergency

Noun

Asked by ranking member Michael Bennet (D-CO) what worries him the most, Fauci said the possibility of a pandemic flu.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Caleb Flynn, a pastor who competed on American Idol season 12, has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, AP News reports.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of possibility

Noun

Mud is a dynamic if uneven vehicle for Wolf, a vocalist with a showman’s need for climax.

— Enzo Escober, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
But by the climax, Bela and her parents’ problems have become so bizarre that just leaving the theater felt like trying to shake someone else’s therapist.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of climax

Noun

Civil litigation can drag on for years, frequently ending in settlements reached at the eleventh hour, just before a trial begins.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Why the eleventh hour came with an extra second, killing time proved impossible, and time fails to fly in Ann Arbor.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of eleventh hour

Noun

Though the dinner gala is toasting a milestone anniversary of 50 years, the clinic itself celebrates 60 years of service in Los Angeles.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s series is co-produced with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in partnership with APTN and represented a key milestone for Netflix in Canada, being its first original.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

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