eleventh hour
noun
: the latest possible time before it is too late
still making changes at the eleventh hour
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Then, at the eleventh hour, a separate agency claimed the patents never should have existed – even though the matter had already been fully tried before the ITC, with live witnesses, fact discovery, and a complete evidentiary record.
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Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Raising property taxes — which Johnson flatly opposed during his mayoral campaign but was prepared to implement until the eleventh hour — will be just as politically fraught for the 2026 plan.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
The resulting policy uncertainty will be detrimental to U.S. businesses making investment and hiring decisions looking 3-4 years ahead rather than over the course of serial eleventh hour deadlines with major trading partners.
—Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The festival screened close to 3,000 films to curate its official selection, and programmers shoehorned big name after big name into its lineup right up to the eleventh hour.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
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Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Raising property taxes — which Johnson flatly opposed during his mayoral campaign but was prepared to implement until the eleventh hour — will be just as politically fraught for the 2026 plan.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
The resulting policy uncertainty will be detrimental to U.S. businesses making investment and hiring decisions looking 3-4 years ahead rather than over the course of serial eleventh hour deadlines with major trading partners.
—Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The festival screened close to 3,000 films to curate its official selection, and programmers shoehorned big name after big name into its lineup right up to the eleventh hour.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
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“Eleventh hour.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eleventh%20hour. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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