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“Artists of every country remain, in the last analysis, the true measure of its civilization.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Compared with its last analysis in 2012, the WHO reports "no substantive decline" in the rates of new or existing infections.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2019
But most of all, I imagine, he might have leaned back in his chair and smiled, and said that in the last analysis he really did not know how he had done it.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2019
It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2017
In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart—a good night’s sleep.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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