: the last extremity however painful or calamitous
: the inboard end of a ship's anchoring cable
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Sam Amick, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
Lamar Jackson’s dazzling season meets a bitter end Watch out.
—Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
As the forthright Sun in your 9th House of Higher Education agrees to disagree with unconscious Neptune in your 4th House of Roots, you aren’t required to follow an upsetting line of inquiry to the bitter end.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2024
Very few of the people who were close to him at the start of his time in office were still there at the bitter end.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Noun
For the Germans, who spent the early portion of the tournament looking like a legitimate gold-medal contender, the tournament came to a bitter end.
—Sam Amick, The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
Lamar Jackson’s dazzling season meets a bitter end Watch out.
—Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
As the forthright Sun in your 9th House of Higher Education agrees to disagree with unconscious Neptune in your 4th House of Roots, you aren’t required to follow an upsetting line of inquiry to the bitter end.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2024
Very few of the people who were close to him at the start of his time in office were still there at the bitter end.
—Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Bitter end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitter%20end. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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