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ultimate English

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ultimate

The ultimate goal, success, decision, etc. is the final one. You can't have ultimate success without a lot of little successes. The moon is good, but there's no question that Mars is the ultimate goal. Presidents have the ultimate responsibility to keep us safe. The ultimate test, responsibility, power, etc. is the one that is more important, bigger, stronger, etc. than the others. They are trying to build the ultimate computer, one that can do anything and everything. If you could save someone's life, I think that's the ultimate goal.

ultimate

furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme the ultimate achievement the ultimate question man's ultimate destiny the ultimate insult one's ultimate goal in life being the last or concluding element of a series the ultimate sonata of that opus a distinction between the verb and noun senses of 'conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable the finest or most superior quality of its kind the ultimate in luxury

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Simple sentences

What is the ultimate purpose of education?
Our ultimate goal is to establish world peace.
What is your ultimate goal in your life?
The ultimate question for me is whether I like business.
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks that has been given to us, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I don't need gold, I only seek the ultimate truth.
Dan committed the ultimate violation.
His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the ultimate truth in the universe.

Movie subtitles

All of our searching is leading to one ultimate goal.. finding intelligent life somewhere in the vastness of the universe.
Because the ultimate purpose of crime is to establish the endless empire of crime.
If those ties involve some personal danger, I don't mind considering the ultimate reward.
The ultimate Evil. - Make sure you get the snake.
The Supreme Being, the ultimate warrior. Created to protect life.
Then I ask you to contemplate a thing which is quite rare: The ultimate drunkard.
Who knows the ultimate destiny it serves?
Their lucky, ultimate souvenir from home.
Self-sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue.
Anyone with any knowledge of the air knows. that the ultimate speed of aircraft is almost unlimited.
Once we can control that, we're ready for the ultimate test: On humans.
Well putting it in that light, perhaps we can look to the ultimate good.
It is the ultimate in concentration.
And the ultimate victory!
But he suddenly realized that he lacked the chapter on the ultimate crime.
Senorita, this spot is the ultimate.
But this softness in your nature with regard to the ultimate purpose of firearms. betrays the weakness, the decadence, not only of yourself but of your entire race.
With a newly acquired huge caravan we headed for our ultimate goal.
We ride on, above high, vast plains, toward our ultimate aim.
This is truly the ultimate honor.
The yard are confident of ultimate success, because anyone who traffics in stolen gold will find it's too hot to handle.
De Maynes is the ultimate swordsman. No rival, no peer.
You know, when you get an idea that's for my sole and ultimate happiness, there's always lurking behind it a little angle for you.
Meacham, I must ask you to have faith in our ultimate aims.
Freedom is the ultimate gir sent us by Heaven!
But I think Derek's ultimate goal is just to find that place of having a sense of family again and belonging.
This is the ultimate insult!
What do you mean, ultimate?
I call ignoring me the ultimate insult.
Suppose I tell you that I not only know when you're leaving the country tonight but the latitude and longitude of your rendezvous and your ultimate destination.
Herr Rolfe, in his very skilful defence, has asserted that there are others who must share the ultimate responsibility for what happened here in Germany.
I stand before the moment of ultimate perfection!
The ultimate weapon.
In your view' l'm a bastard and an ultimate individualist.
Elegance, plus ultimate technology.
The ultimate example of American ingenuity and enterprise.
In the next world war, I believe that both sides could stop before the ultimate destruction of cities so that both sides could retire for a period of ten years or so of post-attack recuperation, in which world wars four to eight could be prepared.
He's the ultimate head of the solar system!

News and current affairs

NEW HAVEN - Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes.
A decade ago, people spoke of the end of history, meaning the ultimate triumph of a liberal capitalist political order.
Jews outside Israel feel that they have to defend - right or wrong - the country that, after all, is their ultimate hope of security.
Surprisingly, there is no well-received explanation, because this boom's ultimate causes are mostly psychological.
Too many factors remain fuzzy: the rate of growth of these countries' energy demand, discoveries of new oil reserves, developments in oil-saving technology, and the ultimate replacement of oil by other energy sources.
There is still time, just barely, to turn the F's to A's, and to pass humanity's ultimate test.
You may not care a whit about chess, long regarded as the ultimate intellectual sport.
He claimed that the ultimate proof of artificial intelligence would be met if a human interrogator were unable to figure out that he was conversing with a computer.
Japan plus Russia plus India, with the US lending a helpful hand, would not only extinguish any prospect of a Sino-centric Asia, but would create the ultimate strategic nightmare for China.
The longer this is deferred, the more wrenching the ultimate policy adjustment - and its consequences for growth and employment - will be.
It is a rewarding experience, one that gives me great hope for ultimate success in resolving global problems such as poverty, environmental threats, and violent conflict.
Those revolutions, whatever their ultimate outcome, have exposed the philosophy and behavior of Bin Laden and his followers as not only illegitimate and inhumane, but actually inept at achieving better conditions for ordinary Muslims.
Consider the interdisciplinary efforts--and ultimate failure--of Nicolas Rashevsky, a Russian theoretical physicist who emigrated to the US in 1924.
But Fischer recognized that US culture marginalizes any pursuit that does not produce big money, so he viewed the six-figure cash prize as the ultimate symbol of advancement in his sport.
The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.
While accurate attribution of the ultimate source of a cyber attack is sometimes difficult, the determination does not have to be airtight.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
It is impossible to overestimate how significant a step Barack Obama's election is in this direction, but America's actions over the coming years will be the ultimate determinant of whether the power of America's model can be restored.
The ultimate test of any nation's character is to look inside itself at moments of great challenge.
A compliant bond market, which may well be the next bubble, is mistakenly viewed as the ultimate validation of this myopic approach.
His ultimate failure to follow through on his proclamation emboldened and, in a way, re-legitimized Assad.
Rouhani can undercut hardliners who would seek to block any ultimate deal only if the Iranian population both experiences economic relief and attributes it to his administration.
The ultimate winner in the interim agreement with Iran is the cause of diplomacy itself.
In the end, even Spassky paid the ultimate tribute to Fischer's genius, clapping along with the audience after Fischer's inspired sixth-game victory, as portrayed in the movie.

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