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last-ditch
adjective as in done in desperation
Example Sentences
“It’s a lot of time and effort and resources. These fish rescues are an absolute emergency, last-ditch effort to save these populations so that they can persist.”
Lawmakers in Congress debated delaying the ban, and NBC News said the Biden administration made last-ditch efforts to prevent it from going into effect.
He is serving a life sentence in U.S. federal prison, and an appeals court denied a last-ditch effort to have his conviction overturned on Jan. 10.
TikTok will appear before the US Supreme Court on Friday in a last-ditch effort to overturn a ban, in a case testing the limits of national security and free speech.
Jan. 6 was their last-ditch effort to overturn the election.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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