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IN THE END

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

As the end result of a succession or process

Example:

at long last the winter was over

Synonyms:

at last; at long last; finally; in the end; ultimately

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eventually or after a lengthy period of time

Example:

she will succeed in the end

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

I hope all will be right in the end, she said: but believe me, you cannot be too careful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A benign, locally aggressive bone tumor, usually arising in the end of long bones or the vertebrae.

(Benign Giant Cell Tumor of Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

In the end, however, they caught her: and the wife said, Shall I kill her at once?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On the upside, you have Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, in this same eighth house of other people’s money, which will staunchly protect your interests in the end.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A high grade aggressive bone tumor, usually arising in the end of long bones.

(Malignant Giant Cell Tumor of Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

I wish him very happy; and I am so sure of his always doing his duty, that though now he may harbour some regret, in the end he must become so.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In the end, an estimated one-to-two hundred people showed up at the gates, and the classified area was not stormed.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

In the end, the team concluded that the low densities of these planets are in part a consequence of the young age of the system, a mere 500 million years old, compared to our 4.6-billion-year-old Sun.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

The idea that returned the oftenest was that Miss Crawford, after proving herself cooled and staggered by a return to London habits, would yet prove herself in the end too much attached to him to give him up.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the end he worked out the complete law.

(White Fang, by Jack London)