Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun All that is to be; the whole being.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic The whole; all that is to be.
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- noun poetic The
whole ; all that is to be.
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Examples
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"Clearly, it's important — extremely important — for SpaceX to succeed because in the public, and in the congressional mind, the focus is on SpaceX," he said, but the first unmanned Falcon 9 test flight "is not the be-all and end-all of commercial crew."
Launch could be first test of rocket and Obama space plan 2010
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Those people probably think I'm a dodo for not thinking that "winning" a bowl game or a world war is the be-all and end-all.
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"It does raise the bigger issue that when tests themselves, and the high-stakes nature of them, become the be-all and the end all, as opposed to teaching and learning."
Under Immense Pressure, Educators Accused of Tampering With Tests Joy Resmovits 2011
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You see, the president and Ms. Jarrett keep talking about jobs and competitiveness as if these tech companies are the end-all and be-all to economic recovery.
Leo Hindery, Jr.: Obamanomics: Guess Who Came to Dinner; Guess Who Didn't Even Get Asked? Jr. Leo Hindery 2011
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"It does raise the bigger issue that when tests themselves, and the high-stakes nature of them, become the be-all and the end all, as opposed to teaching and learning."
Under Immense Pressure, Educators Accused of Tampering With Tests Joy Resmovits 2011
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Mr. Anthony says he doesn't picture algorithms ever becoming the "be-all, end-all of everything," but "clearly clients have expressed a demand for it."
Banks' Currency Clients Get High-Tech Tools Erin McCarthy 2011
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It's by no means a vast sample size, and by no means is this a be-all, end-all project.
History says Ian Desmond will cut down on errors in 2011 Adam Kilgore 2011
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"We think mobile is going to be the end-all and be-all of how we are going to communicate with the customer," she said.
Mobile Apps Drawing in Shoppers, Marketers Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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In context (but neo-McCarthyist hysterics like Potter don't fuss too much about context), Gose was pointing out, if perhaps a little clumsily, that the putative interests of Jewish students, for whom the over-protective Frank Dimant was presuming to speak, are not the be-all and the end-all.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Perhaps, they differ in the particulars, but both departments seem to worship mathematics as the be-all, end-all of economic inquiry and methodology.
Scholastics and Pietists, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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