Sharon Hales, Richmond News (Richmond, BC), 1 Oct. Those expenses were followed by an embarrassing expenditure of $16,000 to fly and house Reid's Richmond based campaign manager back and forth to Victoria (which prompted Reid to announce she won't be doing this anymore) and finally, the penultimate embarrassment of the involvement of the RCMP in security upgrades to Reid's constituency office, to the tune of $79,000 (exactly how was her kitchenette and washroom made more secure during these renovations?). Daniel Burstein, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 1973Īn enormous on-stage battle pits an army of monkeys against an army of giants in a penultimate struggle between good and evil. Charles McCabe, The Charleston News and Courier (Charleston, SC), 22 Apr. As was her way, she managed to cram a pile of living into her penultimate days. This particular lady lived for ten years or so after making this thundering observation. Ray Smit, Parksville-Qualicum News (Parksville, BC), 17 Feb. The penultimate insult to my dad's world view was the portrayal of fathers on television. While penultimate has an extremely limited range of meanings (it always refers to the next-to-last of something) ultimate can mean a number of different things, ranging from "fundamental, basic" to "utmost" to "farthest." There is a considerable amount of evidence of penultimate being mistakenly used to mean all of these things. The sign you envision during the penultimate hurdle.
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