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last word
noun
- the closing remark or comment, as in an argument:
By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
- a final or definitive work, statement, etc.:
This report is the last word on the treatment of arthritis.
- the latest, most modern thing:
Casual hairdos are the last word this season.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of last word1
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Example Sentences
She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.
The last word on same-sex marriage has not yet been written by the Court.
It is hard because one wants to love every last word of this book, instead of just seven-eighths of them.
Most importantly, I need to hold on to the belief that God will have the last word, and that word is hope.
And it is Lane, an aggrieved father, who gets the last word.
And the maxim of laissez faire became the last word of social wisdom.
As she said the last word, she looked at Baroudi, and her voice seemed to linger on the word as on a word beloved.
Do not accompany them to the dressing-room, and never stop them in the hall for a last word.
This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.
A more important matter, however, regarded the right of the prisoner to have the last word.
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