ultimate collapse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultimateandcollapse
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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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collapse
noun
uk/kəˈlæps/us/kəˈlæps/
the sudden failure of a system, organization, ...
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(Definition ofultimateandcollapsefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theultimatecollapseof the analogy is, in fact, suggestive in that it reveals a startling reciprocity between reference and referent, signifier and signified.
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Many historians have viewed the war as a major contributor to the fracture andultimatecollapseof the civil rights movement in the late 1960s.
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If we are to avoid theultimatecollapse, we cannot hold back support for this technology and fuel; we must take action.
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It must mean the collapse of the home water fishing and that means theultimatecollapseof the industry as a whole.
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We have seen the utter degradation of human standards which led to theultimatecollapseof the whole machinery of international peace.
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It is a course of planned, deliberate action aimed at weakening the foundations of the state with a view to causing itsultimatecollapse.
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While theultimatecollapsewithout assistance might be inevitable and clearly foreseen, it might nevertheless not occur at once.
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That was certainly a factor in theultimatecollapseof the company.
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These national revivals later blossomed into the nationalist movements of the 19th and 20h centuries that contributed to the empire'sultimatecollapse.
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However, although large increases are achieved in theultimatecollapseload, the concrete will crack at only slightly enhanced load, meaning that this application is only occasionally used.
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