Synonyms for last-ditch
last-ditch

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1. last-ditchadjective

   of something done as a final recourse (especially to prevent a crisis or disaster)

   "a last-ditch attempt"

   Antonyms:
   proximate

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1. List of paraphrases for "last-ditch":

   last-minute

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1. Liz Lehmann:

   It was a last-ditch measure but it’s been nothing short of a miracle, it has changed my life, and I started functioning.

2. Alan Boswell:

   This is a last-ditch attempt but a serious one to broker a deal, the concern is that it's not at all obvious how they will prevent the catastrophe of 2016 from recurring, since the framework for the deal is not substantially different than it was in the 2015 deal.

3. Michael Lang:

   We were kind of losing that dream for a better way to be on the planet. So for me, it was kind of a last-ditch effort to see that if we took the tribes out of the daily grind and the cities and came out to nature, with us in charge, we could actually make it work amongst ourselves.

4. Art Caplan:

   I think the publicity helps and lets more people know' maybe there's a last ditch thing I ought to pursue,' but at the end of the day, creating a world in which you say there's a right to try, if it's nothing more than a right to beg a company, that right already exists, and you're really not doing much to help anybody gain access to much of anything.

5. John Hannah:

   Instead of reading Erdogan the riot act in a last-ditch effort to warn him off the S-400 deal, The President accepted hook, line and sinker Erdogan's ridiculous claim that it was all President Obama's fault, and that Turkey was somehow justified in alienating NATO and cozying up to( Russian President Vladimir) Putin.