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eventually

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adverb

  1. after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay

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You can do a lot of that from our facility, but eventually a mobile system to inspect parts on wing is where we are going to be positioned.

The world will eventually reabsorb these problems, long before they come to our shores.

The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.

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ultimately

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adverb

  1. as the end result of a succession or process

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If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races.

Your Honour, we have not appealed against that, but what we do say is that we have sufficient standing to obtain either of the prerogative writs if ultimately the Court were minded to grant them and we do not really need more than that.

In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating.

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