ultimate answer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultimateandanswer
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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answer
noun[C]
uk/ˈɑːn.sər/us/ˈæn.sɚ/
a reaction to a question, letter, phone ...
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(Definition ofultimateandanswerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Ourultimateansweris that for evolutionary analysis to be useful we must lower our expectations.
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I will give you theultimateanswer.
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I do not say that this is theultimateanswer.
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The production of standardised ships, while effective in war-time, has never been theultimateanswer.
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I know that that is theultimateanswerfor the railway and that it is an exaggerated case.
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Theultimateanswerto all these problems is more education and higher social standards.
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But surely theultimateanswermust be that the borrower pays.
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Clearly, therefore, it cannot be said that this redistribution is theultimateanswerto the problem of maintaining the democratic nature of the electorate.
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The control of imports is theultimateanswerto the problem of imports rushing in as we expand.
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That is theultimateanswerto dealing with the cruel famines.
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Theultimateanswerto the problem is the expansion of public transport, although every time we burn energy we will have waste products.
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I suspect that that is not really theultimateanswerto what we are dealing with.
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He finally said that theultimateanswerto this whole problem is really the education of public opinion.
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Why, then, should a poll on a per member basis produce theultimateanswerabout what should happen to the market?
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I do not profess to have theultimateanswer.
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That is theultimateanswerto questions of unemployment.
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The book ran to some thousand pages but two words were theultimateanswer: cheap money.
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Perhaps they have theultimateanswer; they regulate how much technology can be admitted in relation to unemployment.
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This little vignette of a debate about prices is theultimateanswerto all those who have said throughout history that competition does not work.
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It may be that theultimateansweris that there is no case for separate preparation and separate advocacy.
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