Ends and Means

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Means is an antonym for ends in topics: intention, death, extreme, completion, leftover part.

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

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Ends is an antonym for means.

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

McCarthyism is largely a disagreement about means rather than ends (anti-communism remains mainstream and has bi-partisan consensus), and the means advocated by McCarthy i.e.

Source: Useful Notes / Joseph McCarthy
Not So Different: While Dawn doesn't realize it, the descriptions of her self-centered vanity and her general brattiness means that she ends up coming off very similarly to Glory.

Source: Fan Fic / All Your Base Are Belong To Her
Unfortunately that means he's the only inmate left on Death Row, and the episode ends with him looking sadly into a hand mirror, with only himself for company.

Source: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them

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