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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. Mayor Jimmy Witt:

   We have started a last-ditch effort to try and protect the southern borders of the city.

2. 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.

3. Jennifer Lawrence and James McAvoy:

   Maybe when people get really tired of superhero movies, they'll do it as one last ditch desperate attempt to kind of milk the cow dry, i think there are so many characters in the X-Men universe that we could go and explore before we have to go and mash up with those guys.

4. 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.

5. Irwin Redlener:

   National Institutes of Health also has a very sizable health service for people who have not been successfully treated with conventional modalities and are on research protocols, often as a last ditch effort to be cured -- and that's obviously very meaningful.

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