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nick of time
noun as in eleventh hour
noun as in last minute
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Example Sentences
In quickly indexing every public-facing page on the CDC site in the nick of time, he anticipated what has happened over the past few days, although perhaps not the specifics of Trump’s Jan. 29 memo to all federal departments and agencies, outlining an executive order called “Defending Women”, that seems to have triggered the hasty scrubbing of federally-funded sites.
That’s how Midler, then 16 years past her first Grammy, accepted the final award of 1990’s ceremony, not long after Raitt sealed a midlife comeback of her own with an album of the year win for “Nick of Time.”
Says Crow, who reportedly dated Clapton in the late ’90s: “It’s like Bonnie and ‘Nick of Time’ — these people who’ve lived a full life and then sing a song that cauterizes itself in a moment.”
Help may come in the nick of time, with the first rain in months expected this weekend in Los Angeles County.
A Hawaii national park has issued a new warning to tourists after a toddler was grabbed "in the nick of time" from falling off the rim of an erupting volcano.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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