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countdown
noun as in final preparation
Weak match
Example Sentences
The military veteran’s qualifications include regularly co-hosting Fox’s annual New Year’s Eve countdown.
"We know people get quite excited about the festive adverts. It's a marker in people's years and has become part of that Christmas countdown."
"We are in the final countdown to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and time is not on our side."
Another woman, Sophie, also not her real name, said he started a countdown so she had a minute to send him what he wanted or everything would be sent to her family members.
In the hours before the polls closed, cable news built the anticipation with their countdown clocks to poll closings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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