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
  • Related Stories The growing muscle that YouTube flexes as the video crossroads of the world was a near-constant subject of conversation.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Critics see a once-lively multiethnic crossroads suffocated by Chinese authoritarianism.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of crossroads
Noun
  • The Falcons announced that Daniels was conscious and has movement in all extremities.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The driver then reversed, freeing the man, who suffered severe injuries to his lower extremities.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of extremities
Noun
  • For nearly four decades, the Cosumnes River College (CRC) fire technology program has helped prepare students for careers in the field, training them to respond to emergencies in both urban and rural areas.
    — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • An inquiry found that the nursery had no fire alarm or sprinkler system and that the hospital lacked detailed procedures and training for responding to fires and other emergencies.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of emergencies
Noun
  • Latif, a hitman who’s also a father of three and a practicing Muslim, faces compounding crises when his wife dies, leaving him with a newborn who can’t tolerate formula.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
  • With a system immune to currency crises, stability was established in Ecuador, and while stability might not be everything, everything is nothing without stability.
    — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of crises
Noun
  • Gone is the scrambling, gone are the endless possibilities, gone are the complicated dynamics of large groups replaced, once again, by the predictability of the small group.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Quantum computers promise exponential computational power by processing many possibilities simultaneously.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of possibilities
Noun
  • The pop star’s fourth album explores the cracks between the hits, the climaxes, and the comedowns.
    — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026
  • So take the chance to watch this fearlessly brutal movie, featuring a great performance from its leading lady and one of the bloodiest climaxes in horror history.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of climaxes
Noun
  • There’s also reassuring initial bite at the top of the travel, yet the setup doesn’t feel grabby or overly anxious in everyday driving situations.
    — Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the film’s situations emerged out of rehearsal improv.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 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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