ultimate

Example Sentences

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Congress makes the ultimate funding decisions for the government.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“I think when you are making a film that is confronting one of the ultimate taboos in cinema, you’re going to have a tough time,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her," the caption reads.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

In a typical understatement, he added: “And the ultimate result was apparently accepted by everybody, because people still play them, and they like them. For which, of course, I’m very pleased.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis