final draft
noun
the complete, fully edited version of a project or piece of writing.
final drafts
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pluralof final draft.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When Rosenzweig died in 1929, two weeks shy of 43, he was reviewing the final drafts of Isaiah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The chief justice apparently never discovered the source of O’Brien’s scoops, though one report suggested that he suspected someone in the court’s printing office, who would have had access to the final drafts.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022
In what ways did you revise your essay between the first and final drafts?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Writers might want to show they did due diligence in their reporting, but sources that don’t offer new information go unmentioned in final drafts all the time.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2020
I’d done it the first time, grudgingly, not telling him how much I hated typing, how I did all but the final drafts of my stories in longhand.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
