May 5, 2025
final throes
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Every day one two-word expression or compound word used in American English.
Final throes are the concluding, often painful and convulsive, stage of something's existence before it ends. Can be applied to animals, life forms as well as entities such as companies or government programs, etc. See also, death throes.
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