be the last word in something

Examples of last word

last word
Painstaking and comprehensive they may be, but the lastword they are not.
It should be the lastword for a very long time.
This is by no means the lastword on the subject.
They were instructed to read each sentence aloud and to recall the lastword of each sentence.
However, pragmatics not pundits may have the lastword.
In such situations the ventral system is called into play, and it has the "lastword" in determining the conscious percept.
This issue provides an overview of the state-of-the-art, but it is certainly not the lastword.
This lastword shows that condescension had become an index not only of ethical practice, but also of personality.
Finally, a destressing rule instructs the synthesizer to destress pronouns that occur as the lastword of a phrase.
They were instructed not to start with writing down the lastword presented to them.
In this sense, neither the songs nor the miscellanies that preserve them represent the lastword in the history of their texts.
It is unlikely, however, that this will be the lastword on the matter.
Nevertheless, it is to be hoped that his book will form pretty much the lastword on this particular controversy.
But we added that, in cases of difficulty, the president should have the lastword on the allocation of portfolios.
Without aiming to have the lastword on this complicated issue, then, let us try to make progress with it.
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