: the last extremity however painful or calamitous
: the inboard end of a ship's anchoring cable
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Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
The bitter end of the season can make for some of the most fulfilling hunts of the year.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
But much of it leans on last season’s bitter end: swept in three games (a first all year) by the eventual World Series champion Texas Rangers in the AL Division Series.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
It’s been a long, bitter end to a relationship that officially began in 2012, though Clarkson and Blackstock first met years prior.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
For opponents of the measures, who sought to convince their right-leaning hometown that its leadership had gone too far, the results were a bitter end to a discordant campaign that pitted neighbors against each other and had both sides harking back to a time when city politics wasn’t so acerbic.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
Certainly, Prescott didn’t play his best in the 48-32 playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, which proved to be a bitter end to a third straight 12-5 regular season and an early playoff exit.
—Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2024
Theo smoked the cigarette to the bitter end, flipped the butt into the grass, and brushed the ashes off the front of her nightshirt.
—Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
So kids are asleep on shoulders with earplugs in, and the parents are standing there until the bitter end.
—Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
Noun
There are usually two types of people who wait until the bitter end before the April 15 tax deadline to file their returns: Those who owe money to the government and the folks who are flat-out procrastinators.
—Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
The bitter end of the season can make for some of the most fulfilling hunts of the year.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 3 Jan. 2024
But much of it leans on last season’s bitter end: swept in three games (a first all year) by the eventual World Series champion Texas Rangers in the AL Division Series.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
It’s been a long, bitter end to a relationship that officially began in 2012, though Clarkson and Blackstock first met years prior.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
For opponents of the measures, who sought to convince their right-leaning hometown that its leadership had gone too far, the results were a bitter end to a discordant campaign that pitted neighbors against each other and had both sides harking back to a time when city politics wasn’t so acerbic.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
Certainly, Prescott didn’t play his best in the 48-32 playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, which proved to be a bitter end to a third straight 12-5 regular season and an early playoff exit.
—Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2024
Theo smoked the cigarette to the bitter end, flipped the butt into the grass, and brushed the ashes off the front of her nightshirt.
—Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
So kids are asleep on shoulders with earplugs in, and the parents are standing there until the bitter end.
—Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
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“Bitter end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitter%20end. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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