: the last extremity however painful or calamitous
: the inboard end of a ship's anchoring cable
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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
Tamora: Tamora appears in Titus Andronicus and meets a bitter end.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 14 Oct. 2024
But the chances of the conviction being overturned are slim, and the decision to fight the charges against him to the bitter end—in contrast to Ellison and the other coconspirators—may continue to prove an unfruitful one.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024
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Noun
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
Tamora: Tamora appears in Titus Andronicus and meets a bitter end.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 14 Oct. 2024
But the chances of the conviction being overturned are slim, and the decision to fight the charges against him to the bitter end—in contrast to Ellison and the other coconspirators—may continue to prove an unfruitful one.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Bitter end.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitter%20end. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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