penultimate

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I wanted the ladies to win (even more than I wanted Fanny Pack to win last season; epic sigh), and I think if their awesome robotic routine had been on the final episode rather than the penultimate, they might have.

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  1. adjective Next to last.
  2. adjective Linguistics Of or relating to the penult of a word: penultimate stress.
  3. noun The next to the last.

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  • : Because it's the penultimate issue of Geoff Johns 'awesome Secret Origins story, and Hal and Sinestro are pretty entertaining in it. —  Living Between Wednesdays
  • I wanted the ladies to win (even more than I wanted Fanny Pack to win last season; epic sigh), and I think if their awesome robotic routine had been on the final episode rather than the penultimate, they might have. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • DC Comics has announced that "Final Crisis #6", the penultimate issue of the mini-series, is going back to press for a second printing. —  Superman Homepage - News
  • It's the penultimate issue of the miniseries from the mind of legendary movie producer Joel Silver! —  Major Spoilers
  • It's the penultimate issue of the series MARK MILLAR has called his follow-up to ULTIMATES 2 - and possibly the most brutal chapter yet! —  Major Spoilers
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  1. From Latin paenultimus; see penult.

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  1. As penultima + -ate-. Cf. ultimate.
 

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/pəˈnəltɪmət/
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