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[uhl-tuh-mit] / ˈʌl tə mɪt /




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Treasuries remain the ultimate safe haven in times of trouble including Thursday’s tech stock rout.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

“The ultimate goal was to build AI and understand the mind, then use it to understand science,” Hassabis tells me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

That urgent question is the book’s ultimate contribution to the fraught death-penalty debate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

“This is the perfect example of where insurance is the ultimate remedy, but the people who want it can’t get it.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The ultimate success of esperimento reflects, just like the phrase philosophie experimental in French, the influence of the English language and of English science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality.

From Time Magazine Archive

One need not inquire into the origins or the ultimates.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

If there are ultimates and indefinables in this world of ours, self-consciousness may as fairly claim the dignity or avow the discredit as any other of the list.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode


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