in the final analysis

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in the final analysis

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Calque of French en dernière analyse.

phrase in the last analysis · in the ultimate analysis

  1. idiomatic All things considered; when all is said and done; in conclusion, basically and fundamentally. I have not been personally in a conversation with anybody in the Astronaut Office that is antirobotic for some philosophical reason. They are a group of people who, in the final analysis, have the responsibility to get the job done.

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@misc{in_the_final_analysis_2026,
  title = {in the final analysis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/in%20the%20final%20analysis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}