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n. (context sports English) A quarterfinal; the players in a quarterfinal
Usage examples of "last eight".
The two had traveled all over the world together during the last eight months—.
The two had traveled all over the world together during the last eight monthsDavos, Paris, Tokyo, Cairo, Riyadh, and Jerusalem, to name a fewalways business, never personal.
Her ability to find and hold on to thin threads of hope had gotten her through the last eight years.
Culain sat opposite the young warrior in the watery sunshine, pleased with the progress Cormac had made in the last eight weeks.
As he made no allusion to his absence during the last eight days, I did not mention it, and simply answered that my companions and myself were ready to follow him.
Dunlop had only the haziest sense of geography, having devoted all his last eight years to more profitable pursuits, but he guessed they were somewhere in the hills back of Kingston.
Coping as a single mother for the last eight months had not helped.