ultimatelyul‧ti‧mate‧ly /ˈʌltəmətli/ ●●○ W3 AWL adverb 
Examples
Ultimately, the decision rests with the child’s parents. a long but ultimately successful campaign
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Collocations- Ultimately, you'll have to decide for yourself.
- As long as all the amino acids are present, all protein is ultimately the same.
- Even when the notation of early scores is open to interpretative prejudice, one must still ultimately work from a prepared text.
- He believed that ultimately, Timex would have to sit down, negotiate, and take the workers back.
- However, league and player representatives ultimately will decide the issue.
- The ultimately unknown and the ultimately powerful, it is the source of all beings.
- The gene they ultimately isolated is the blueprint for a protein called the alpha-7 nicotinic cholinergic receptor.
- They ultimately sent 15 ambulances to the auditorium, at Grand Avenue and Washington Boulevard.
- Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► ultimately unsuccessful
Word family· In both cases negotiators were ultimately unsuccessful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► responsible· The environment ministry, to which it is ultimately responsible, supports it to the tune of almost 5m francs.· They are ultimately responsible for its appearance in the right publication on the right day.· However, the act makes it absolutely clear that the Charity Trustees remain ultimately responsible.· As a result, I have always reported concerns to the various Ministers ultimately responsible for the prison and have obtained responses.· The account executive is ultimately responsible for planning your campaign and ensuring that the agency delivers the goods.· Individual errors were ultimately responsible for Leeds s downfall, but several players looked uncomfortable with the new formation.
VERB► become· In 1854 the Imperial Guard was reconstituted, a regiment which ultimately became the crack military force of the Empire.· Meanwhile, Giap faced the task of forming guerrilla bands, which would ultimately become the core of an army.· The deposits are compacted, cemented, and ultimately become sedimentary rocks.· Enter Sub Pop, the label that ultimately became known as the home of grunge.
► decide· The Air Force ultimately decided not to build such a plane.· Holy Trinity abided by the terms of the compromise, but the Renovation Committee ultimately decided to continue with its original plans.· With that in mind, the president may ultimately decide to let the appeals process take its normal course.· Clinton ultimately decided against the idea.· But Ellison said Jobs ultimately decided not to go forward and he went along.· This one will be judged by the court of public opinion but ultimately decided by Hunt.
► depend· This relationship, whose validity ultimately depends on statistical arguments may be one of the greatest red herrings of the subject.· The grounds of perception, on which all interpretation ultimately depends, can not be eliminated as contributory to interpretation.· Whether this assumption is properly made depends ultimately upon one's conception of meaning and on questionable premises concerning legislative intent.· The value of empirical research ultimately depends on the quality of conceptual analysis that defines the objects of enquiry.· Reclassification and final storage form of the data ultimately depends upon how theory develops in the course of application of the method.· Managers' success in the political arena depends ultimately on their capacity to play the political games.
► determine· From a Marxist viewpoint, behaviour is ultimately determined by the economic infrastructure.· Granted, the fundamentals that ultimately determine stock-market value are favorable; there is no reason for bearish growls.· How these people choose to allocate their support will ultimately determine the future of both movements.
► fail· If modernism has ultimately failed, then what happens to all its relics, Fountain, for instance?· It was a nice try, a necessary try, but one that ultimately failed.· An island-driving algorithm will explore those paths that ultimately fail to match the beginning and ending of the utterance.· That the strategy ultimately failed indicates that its utility may be short-lived.· Those who ultimately fail to get out of Hong Kong will do what Hong Kong people have always done.· Sadly, Midnight Club is one of those titles which looks good and promises a lot but ultimately fails to deliver.
► lead· It is largely our need for electricity and transport and our demand for consumer goods that ultimately leads to acid rain.· The decision helped to crystallize public opinion on the slavery issue, which ultimately led to the Civil War.· The drying out of the soils causes shrinkage, which ultimately leads to a lowering of the land levels.· The finding could ultimately lead to a way to correct the genetic defect, scientists say.· Although the trail of the Yuezhi ultimately leads to Bactria, it does not take them out of our story.· Often one night of sleeplessness is perceived as a loss of control and can ultimately lead to sleep problems.· As a result, the inflamed duodenal mucosa may then become susceptible to acid and this may ultimately lead to ulceration.
► prove· Perhaps those problems will ultimately prove too great.· Always tragic, it has often proved ultimately pointless.· Or would these moves have made the parish more contentious, poisoned the nurturing atmosphere, and proved ultimately self-defeating?· It has the complementary effect of helping individuals and groups avoid thoughts and actions that will ultimately prove destructive.
► rest· All our interpretations about what happened in the past must ultimately rest upon this evidence surviving from the past.· The argument is a familiar one and it ultimately rests on familiar distortions of anthropology.· One suspects that the solution will ultimately rest on political rather than economic considerations.
WORD FAMILYnounultimateadjectiveultimateadverbultimately
finally, after everything else has been done or considered[sentence adverb] Ultimately, the decision rests with the child’s parents. a long but ultimately successful campaign