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  • During this penultimate stage of the siege the population's hysterical fear of sabotage reached its height.  (source)
  • Let's see....The prize for the Earthworld contest was the Talisman of Penultimate Truth.†  (source)
  • Nearing the finish line for the penultimate time, Louie fixed his eyes on the gleaming head of the pomaded competitor, who was many runners ahead.†  (source)
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  • Per Director Vavilov, Sofia's performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was to be the penultimate piece on the program, followed by a violin prodigy's performance of a Dvorak concerto, both with full orchestra.†  (source)
    penultimate = next to the last
  • He was in the penultimate stages of the disease: the sweat of blood was on his forehead.†  (source)
  • The silent Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come had stolen the penultimate scene from Scrooge.†  (source)
  • On the penultimate night, I told Nathan that I didn't mind if he wanted to bring Karen back to the complex.†  (source)
  • Celaena picked up the penultimate goblet and sniffed.†  (source)
  • It is the penultimate oxymoron-a nonfactorable variable.†  (source)
  • This penultimate car had only one passenger—a Chinese man.†  (source)
  • This penultimate lap had been by plane from Rome.†  (source)
  • "So your brain was an organic part of the penultimate configuration of the computer program," said Ford, rather lucidly he thought.†  (source)
  • Consider the question posed at the beginning of this book's penultimate chapter: how much do parents really matter?†  (source)
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