in the end Eventually; ultimately: All will turn out well in the end. Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. at the end => more of a physical location, or certain point in life cycle, or a certain point in time.
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