Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At an unspecified future time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the event; in the final result or issue; in the end.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an eventual manner; finally; ultimately.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
In the end . - adverb mathematics, of a sequence For some
tail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Physical culture" became gym class, or working out, or just plain exercise, and the term eventually died--until the New York Times resurrected it as a pompous catch-all for doing somewhat inane things like riding expensive bicycles in club races and doing yoga with your dog:
Let's Get Cultural: Cycling Causes Importance BikeSnobNYC 2009
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When he died, the title eventually fell to Francis Bacon.
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My name eventually got called for the freestyle bracket, and I won that tournament as well.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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The term eventually came to mean any disposable cash.
Celebrating the New Year Joanna Waugh 2008
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The term eventually took broader hold and, since roleplaying games evolved out of wargaming, it came to be used in that hobby as well, although with a bit less affection than either the Napoleonic or wargames version of the term.
What's a Grognard? James Maliszewski 2008
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My name eventually got called for the freestyle bracket, and I won that tournament as well.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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The term eventually came to mean any disposable cash.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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My name eventually got called for the freestyle bracket, and I won that tournament as well.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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My name eventually got called for the freestyle bracket, and I won that tournament as well.
Becoming the Natural Randy Couture with Loretta Hunt 2008
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United never recovered from that blow as the title eventually slipped from their grasp with a subsequent draw at
Evening Standard - Home James Olley 2011
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