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At SOUTH CAROLINA: It takes 80,000, one to screw it in and 79,999 to discuss how this finally will be the year that they have a decent football team.

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  1. At the end or conclusion; ultimately; at last; lastly: as, he finally submitted. Fynally thei accordeden to Melechnasser, that Guytoga had put in Prisoun at Mountrivalle. Mandeville, Travels, p. 38. Finally, brethren, farewell. 2 Cor. xiii. 11. Lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter. Shak., M. W. of W., i. 1. His [Clive's] first attachments … were to Mr. Fox: at a later period he was attracted by the genius … of Mr. Pitt: but finally he connected himself in the closest manner with George Grenville. Macaulay, Lord Clive.
  2. Completely; beyond recovery. What godes thai wold gyffe to the gret harmes, To affirme hit as fast, fynally for euer. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 11470. The enemy was finally exterminated. Sir J. Davies.

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  • To this finally was added the miserablewages on the one hand and the employer's correspondingly and obviously sovastly superior position on the other. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Nation and Race
  • And, finally, a word to Senator Obama and his supporters. —  Latest News - UPI.com
  • Forward reader Herbert Hoffman's request to know why they are called pomedorn in Yiddish finally gets its answer.
  • At SOUTH CAROLINA: It takes 80,000, one to screw it in and 79,999 to discuss how this finally will be the year that they have a decent football team. —  Latest Articles
  • After being dragged eight or nine-wide, Eibar Coa finally was able to settle Supreme Summit, a Doug O'Neill trainee making just his third career start and first outside of California. still led after a half-mile in: 45.90, but Mr. Fantasy advanced along the inside on the turn and took over approaching the eighth-pole. —  Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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  1. from Middle English fynally; from final + -ly.
 

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